宮
gōngGōng HSK6

palace

宫 (宮) gōng frequency
palace noun
a royal or imperial residence

故宫是中国明清两代的皇家宫殿。

gù gōng shì Zhōng​guó Míng Qīng liǎng dài de huáng​jiā gōng​diàn.

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China.

pentatonic tonic noun
the first note in the traditional Chinese five-tone scale

在五音“宫商角徵羽”中，宫音居首。

zài wǔ​yīn“ gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔ” zhōng, gōng​yīn jū​shǒu.

Among the five notes 'Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, Yu', Gong is the first.

temple noun
a building for religious worship, especially Daoist or dedicated to specific deities

这座妈祖宫的历史可以追溯到清朝。

zhè zuò Mā​zǔ gōng de lì​shǐ kě​yǐ zhuī​sù dào Qīng​cháo.

The history of this Mazu Temple can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty.

castration noun
an ancient form of corporal punishment involving the removal of reproductive organs

这种残酷的宫刑在古代中国曾被使用了很久。

zhè zhǒng cán​kù de gōng​xíng zài gǔ​dài Zhōng​guó céng bèi shǐ​yòng le hěn jiǔ.

This cruel form of castration was used as a punishment in ancient China for a long time.

宫 (宮) Gōng
Gong proper name
surname Gong

宫先生是一位著名的建筑师。

Gōng xiān​sheng shì yī wèi zhù​míng de jiàn​zhù​shī.

Mr. Gong is a famous architect.

Frequency
Character
Written text
982nd most common 166.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,388th most common 51.7 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.1 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
40.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
宫
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5BAE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)