攻

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːŋ, *kuːŋ): phonetic 工 ‎(OC *koːŋ) + semantic 攵 – aggression.

Han character

攻 (radical 66 攴+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一人大 (MOK), four-corner 1814₀, composition ⿰工攵)

1. to attack, assault
2. criticize

References

• KangXi: page 468, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13120
• Dae Jaweon: page 817, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1449, character 6
• Unihan data for U+653B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		攻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng (gong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kûng
• Min Nan (POJ): kong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: kung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹
    • Yale: gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: gung´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gung¹
    • IPA: /kuŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong
    • Tâi-lô: kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kofng
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuŋ/, /kuoŋ/▼

Rime
Character	攻	攻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	冬 (5)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古紅切	古冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuŋ/	/kuoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kuŋ/	/kuoŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuŋ/	/koŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwŋ/	/kawŋ/
Li Rong	/kuŋ/	/koŋ/
Wang Li	/kuŋ/	/kuoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuŋ/	/kuoŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōng	gōng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːŋ/, /*kuːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	攻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤoŋ/
English	attack
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	攻	攻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4027	4065
Phonetic component	工	工
Rime group	東	終
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	公	攻
Old Chinese	/*koːŋ/	/*kuːŋ/

Noun

攻

1. attack, assault

Verb

攻

1. to attack, to assault
2. to criticize

Compounds

• 攻城打援
• 攻城略地
• 攻错
• 攻打
• 攻读
• 攻防
• 攻关
• 攻击
• 攻歼
• 攻坚
• 攻坚战
• 攻克
• 攻破
• 攻其不备
• 攻取
• 攻势
• 攻守
• 攻守同盟
• 攻无不克
• 攻陷
• 攻心
• 攻研
• 攻占

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Japanese

Kanji

攻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. attack

Readings

• Goon: く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: せめる (semeru), おさめる (osameru)

Compounds

• 攻究 (こうきゅう) ‎(kōkyū)
• 攻撃 (こうげき) ‎(kōgeki)
• 攻勢 (こうせい) ‎(kōsei)

• 攻防 (こうぼう) ‎(kōbō)
• 攻略 (こうりゃく) ‎(kōryaku)
• 専攻 (せんこう) ‎(senkō)

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Korean

Hanja

攻 • ‎(gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune-Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

攻 (công)

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