共工 (Gòng gōng): meaning and stroke order
共工 (Gòng gōng) means God of Water.
共工
- Simplified
- 共工
- Traditional
- 共工 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Gòng gōng
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Stroke order of 共工
共
- gòng common; general
- 6 strokes
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工
- gōng work; worker
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 共工
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Gòng gōng
- God of Water
Radicals of the characters
- 共
- Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 6 strokes · 龷 on top, 八 below
- 工
- Radical 工 (Kangxi radical 48) · 3 strokes · 丅 on top, 一 below
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.
共工 in our stories
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传说远古时代，水神共工和火神祝融一直不和，为了争天下的统治权，两人打了起来。
chuánshuō yuǎngǔ shídài shuǐshén Gònggōng hé huǒshén Zhùróng yìzhí bù hé wèile zhēng tiānxià de tǒngzhìquán liǎng rén dǎ le qǐlai
Legend says that in remote antiquity the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhurong were forever at odds, and they went to war for rule over the world.
From the story Nüwa mends the sky 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).