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Mythic Mandarin

控 (kòng): meaning and stroke order

控 (kòng) means to control, to accuse, to charge, to sue, to invert a container to empty it.

控

Simplified
控
Traditional
控 (same form)
Pinyin
kòng

Stroke order of 控

控

  • kòng to control; to accuse
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 控

  1. kòng
    • to control
    • to accuse
    • to charge
    • to sue
    • to invert a container to empty it
    • (suffix) (slang) buff
    • enthusiast
    • devotee
    • -phile or -philia

Radical and structure

控
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 空 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 控

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).