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gǒng HSK6

secure, bind

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Phonosemantic compound. 丮 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.

Components

工
工 Sound component
丮
丮 Meaning component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 丮 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoŋʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“，袌也。从，工聲。，或加手。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)