拱

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拱 U+62F1, 拱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62F1
← 拰
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 拲 →

Translingual

Han character

拱 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手廿金 (QTC), four-corner 54081, composition ⿰扌共)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 428, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1867, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+62F1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拱
alternative forms 共
廾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 拱
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
港 *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷 *ɡroːŋs
衖 *ɡroːŋs
鬨 *ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘 *qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪 *ɡloːŋ
鉷 *ɡloːŋ
谼 *ɡloːŋ
葓 *ɡoːŋ
哄 *ɡloːŋs
蕻 *ɡloːŋs
恭 *kloŋ
供 *kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔 *kloŋ
珙 *kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共 *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸 *kloŋ
拱 *kloŋʔ
拲 *kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬 *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱 *kloŋʔ
輁 *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼 *ɡloŋ
輂 *kloɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kloŋʔ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 共 (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kióng - literary;
  • kéng - vernacular.
Rime
Character 拱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居悚切
Baxter kjowngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɨoŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kioŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kioŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kuawŋX/
Li
Rong 		/kioŋX/
Wang
Li 		/kĭwoŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ki̯woŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiǒng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gung2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gǒng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjowngX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*k(r)oŋʔ/
English join the hands

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 拱
Reading # 1/1
No. 4172
Phonetic
component 		共
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		拱
Old
Chinese 		/*kloŋʔ/

Definitions

拱

  1. to fold the hands in front of the breast
  2. to bow; to salute
  3. to surround; to encircle
    眾星拱月／众星拱月  ―  zhòngxīnggǒngyuè  ―  to crowd around
  4. (archaic) area enclosed by the arms
  5. to push upwards or outwards
  6. to sprout
  7. to arch
  8. arched

Synonyms

  • (to surround):

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “拱”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 231.

Japanese

Kanji

拱

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. arch
  2. fold arms

Readings

  • Go-on: く (ku)
  • Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kun: こまぬく (komanuku, 拱く)、こまねく (komaneku, 拱く)

Korean

Hanja

拱 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

  1. fold hands on breast
  2. bow, salute

Vietnamese

Han character

拱: Hán Nôm readings: cõng

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