恭

Translingual

Han character

恭 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿金心 (TCP), four-corner 4433₈, composition ⿱共㣺)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 385, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10596
• Dae Jaweon: page 717, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2299, character 9
• Unihan data for U+606D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		恭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 恭
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
港	*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷	*ɡroːŋs
衖	*ɡroːŋs
鬨	*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘	*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪	*ɡloːŋ
鉷	*ɡloːŋ
谼	*ɡloːŋ
葓	*ɡoːŋ
哄	*ɡloːŋs
蕻	*ɡloːŋs
恭	*kloŋ
供	*kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔	*kloŋ
珙	*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共	*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸	*kloŋ
拱	*kloŋʔ
拲	*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱	*kloŋʔ
輁	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼	*ɡloŋ
輂	*kloɡ

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kloŋ) : phonetic 共 (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs, “heart”) + semantic 心

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 恭

1. respectful; polite; reverent

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Japanese

Kanji

恭

(Jōyō kanji)

1. respect

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)
• Kun: うやうやしい (uyauyashii, 恭しい, Jōyō)
• Nanori: きよ (kiyo); たかし (takashi); やす (yasu); やすし (yasushi); ゆき (yuki); よし (yoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

恭 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

1. respectful, polite, reverent

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 恭 (cung)

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