宫

See also 宮, and 官

Translingual

simpl.		宫
trad.		宮

Etymology

Simplified from 宮 (呂 → 吕) – Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 吕: many rooms under a roof (a palace).

Note that though 宮 (with joined boxes: 呂) is the traditional form, the form 宫 (with unjoined boxes: 吕) dates to oracle script, and was used in succeeding forms as well.

Han character

宫 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十口口 (JRR))

1. palace

Synonyms

• 殿
• 闕, 阙

See also

• 宸

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 285, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 926, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BAB

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Japanese

Kanji

宫

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū), ぐう (gū)
• Kun: みや (miya), いえ (ie)

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Korean

Hanja

宫 (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

宫 (traditional 宮, pinyin gōng (gong1), Wade-Giles kung¹)