弓 (gōng): meaning and stroke order
弓 (gōng) means a bow (weapon), 张, to bend, to arch (one's back etc), surname Gong.
弓
- Simplified
- 弓
- Traditional
- 弓 (same form)
- Pinyin
- gōng
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Stroke order of 弓
弓
- Gōng surname Gong
- gōng a bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 弓
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gōng
- a bow (weapon)
- CL:張|张[zhang1]
- to bend
- to arch (one's back etc)
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Gōng
- surname Gong
Radical and structure
- 弓
- Radical 弓 (Kangxi radical 57) · 3 strokes
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 弓
- 杯弓蛇影 bēi gōng shé yǐng lit. to see a bow reflected in a cup as a snake (idiom); fig. unnecessary suspicions; overly fearful
弓 in our stories
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乐广听说后，回到那天喝酒的地方，抬头一看，墙上挂着一张弓，弓上画着蛇的花纹，影子正好映在酒杯里。
Yuè Guǎng tīngshuō hòu huídào nà tiān hē jiǔ de dìfang tái tóu yí kàn qiáng shàng guà zhe yì zhāng gōng gōng shàng huà zhe shé de huāwén yǐngzi zhènghǎo yìng zài jiǔbēi lǐ
When Yue Guang heard, he went back to where they had been drinking and looked up: on the wall hung a bow painted with a snake pattern, and its reflection fell right into the wine cup.
From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 弓
- The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).