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Mythic Mandarin

供 (gōng): meaning and stroke order

供 (gōng) means to provide; to supply, to be for (the use or convenience of).

供

Simplified
供
Traditional
供 (same form)
Pinyin
gōng · gòng

Stroke order of 供

供

  • gōng to provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
  • gòng to lay (sacrificial offerings); (bound form) offerings
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 供

  1. gōng
    • to provide; to supply
    • to be for (the use or convenience of)
  2. gòng
    • to lay (sacrificial offerings)
    • (bound form) offerings
    • to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1])
    • confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1])

Radical and structure

供
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 8 strokes · 亻 on the left, 共 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 供

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).