弓
gōng HSK7

bow

弓 gōng
bow noun
bow weapon used for shooting arrows or pellets; a stringed instrument bow; a spring or any bow-shaped object

慢慢地他举起弓，开始瞄准那只鸟。

màn​màn de tā jǔ qǐ gōng, kāi​shǐ miáo​zhǔn nà zhī niǎo.

Slowly he raised his bow and began to take aim at the bird.

to bend verb
to bend or arch something, such as one's back or body

猫弓起背，伸了个懒腰。

māo gōng qǐ bèi, shēn le ge lǎn​yāo.

The cat arched its back and stretched itself.

gong
a Chinese surname
length unit
(bound form) traditional unit of length equal to five or six Chinese feet (chi)
radical
Kangxi radical 57 (the bow radical)
classifier
traditional unit of area for measuring land where one mu equals 240 square gong

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,229th most common 27.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,572nd most common 7.49 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.73 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+5F13

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