gǒng

precious stone

Components

Meaning component
wáng king

jade

Sound component
gòng together with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkloŋ
kloŋʔ

說文解字

玉也。从玉共聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica