Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 弓

Modern (Beijing) reading: gōng

Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷǝŋ

Classic Old Chinese: kwǝŋ

Western Han Chinese: kwǝŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: kwǝŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ

Middle Chinese: küŋ

English meaning : bow

Russian meaning[s]: 1) лук (для стрельбы); 2) изогнутый, дугообразный; 3) гун (мера длины в 5 чи); 4) Гун (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. cong ('curved, bent') is colloquial; the normal Sino-Viet. reading is cung ('bow'). In Viet. there is also a doublet còng.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 57

Four-angle index: 4622

Karlgren code: 0901 a-d

Vietnamese reading: cong

Jianchuan Bai: kõ4

Dali Bai: kü5-

Bijiang Bai: kü̃4

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