hōng HSK7

bake

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
huǒ fire
Sound component
gòng together with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰloːŋ
qʰloːŋs
ɡoːŋ
ɡloːŋs

說文解字

尞也。从火共聲。《詩》曰:“卭烘于煁。”

Sources

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