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Mythic Mandarin

孔 (kǒng): meaning and stroke order

孔 (kǒng) means hole, 个, classifier for cave dwellings, surname Kong.

孔

Simplified
孔
Traditional
孔 (same form)
Pinyin
kǒng

Stroke order of 孔

孔

  • Kǒng surname Kong
  • kǒng hole; CL:個|个[ge4]
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 孔

  1. kǒng
    • hole
    • CL:個|个[ge4]
    • classifier for cave dwellings
  2. Kǒng
    • surname Kong

Radical and structure

孔
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 4 strokes · 子 on the left, 乚 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 孔

  • 孔子 Kǒng zǐ Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]

孔 in our stories

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  • 那一周，庞师傅让温然在旁边看。他先用细绳把碎片绑好，再用手拉的金刚钻一点一点地钻孔，每个孔都不能钻透。

    nà yì zhōu Páng shīfu ràng Wēn Rán zài pángbiān kàn tā xiān yòng xì shéng bǎ suìpiàn bǎng hǎo zài yòng shǒu lā de jīngāngzuàn yìdiǎnyìdiǎn de zuān kǒng měi gè kǒng dōu bù néng zuān tòu

    That week Master Pang had Wen Ran watch beside him. First he bound the pieces with fine string, then drilled holes bit by bit with a hand-pulled diamond drill, taking care that no hole went right through.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 孔

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).