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攻

gōng

HSK 6 Character

What 攻 means

1. to attack
2. to accuse
3. to study
4. (LGBT) top

Example sentences

• 攻击！
  Attack!
• 进攻！
  Attack!
• 以毒攻毒
  Yǐdúgōngdú
  Fight fire with fire.
• 他发起攻击。
  He launched an attack.
• 我专攻经济学。
  Wǒ zhuāngōng jīngjìxué.
  I major in economics.
• 你专攻什么领域？
  Nǐ zhuāngōng shénme lǐngyù?
  What's your major field?

Words starting with 攻

• 攻击gōng jīto attack; to accuse; to charge
• 攻克gōng kèto capture; to take; to overcome
• 攻读gōng dúto major (in a field); to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
• 攻势gōng shì(military) offensive
• 攻打gōng dǎto attack (the enemy)
• 攻占gōng zhànto seize control of (an enemy position); (fig.) to take by storm…
• 攻关gōng guānto storm a strategic pass; fig. to tackle a key problem
• 攻城gōng chéngto besiege (a town)
• 攻破gōng pòto make a breakthrough; to break through; to breach (military)
• 攻击力gōng jī lìpotential for attack; firepower
• 攻坚gōng jiānto assault a fortified position; (fig.) to concentrate one's efforts on a particularly…
• 攻陷gōng xiànto capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
• 攻防gōng fángto attack and defend…
• 攻心gōng xīnto mount a psychological attack; to try to demoralize; to try to win over
• 攻入gōng rùto force entrance into; to score a goal (sport)
• 攻取gōng qǔto attack and seize
• 攻略gōng lüè(literary) to storm and capture; strategy; directions; guide; how-to
• 攻城木gōng chéng mùbattering ram
• 攻击机gōng jī jīground attack aircraft
• 攻击线gōng jī xiànthe front line; the attack (e.g. football forwards)
• 攻城略地gōng chéng lüè dìto take cities and seize territories (idiom)
• 攻坚克难gōng jiān kè nánto tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
• 攻灭gōng mièto conquer; to defeat (militarily)
• 攻伐gōng fáto attack; to raid; (of medicine) potent

Words containing 攻

• 进攻jìn gōngto attack; to assault; to go on the offensive
• 围攻wéi gōngto besiege; to beleaguer; to attack from all sides
• 反攻fǎn gōngto counterattack; a counteroffensive
• 主攻zhǔ gōngmain assault; to focus on; to specialize in
• 专攻zhuān gōngto specialize in; to major in
• 助攻zhù gōng(military) to mount a secondary attack; (fig.) to assist in tackling a problem…
• 强攻qiáng gōng(military) to take by storm
• 猛攻měng gōngto attack violently; to storm
• 快攻kuài gōngfast break; quick attack (ball sports)
• 力攻lì gōngto assault; to attack in force
• 对攻duì gōngto attack (one another)
• 小攻xiǎo gōng(slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
• 恐攻kǒng gōng(Taiwan) terrorist attack (abbr. for 恐怖攻击
• 会攻huì gōngto attack jointly
• 阻攻zǔ gōngto block a shot (basketball) (Tw)
• 不攻自破bù gōng zì pò(of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc); to be discredited
• 久攻不下jiǔ gōng bù xiàto attack for a long time without success
• 人身攻击rén shēn gōng jīpersonal attack
• 以毒攻毒yǐ dú gōng dúto cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief
• 全攻全守quán gōng quán shǒutotal football (soccer)
• 宣传攻势xuān chuán gōng shìmarketing campaign
• 易守难攻yì shǒu nán gōngeasily guarded, hard to attack
• 有攻击性yǒu gōng jī xìngoffensive
• 中间人攻击zhōng jiān rén gōng jī(computing) man-in-the-middle attack

Characters built on 工

These share the phonetic component 工 (gōng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result
• 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary
• 贡gòngto offer tribute; tribute; gifts
• 巩gǒng(bound form) to fix in place; to make firm and secure
• 虹hóngrainbow
• 汞gǒngmercury (chemistry)
• 讧hòngstrife; disorder; rioting

Characters that look like 攻

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 我wǒI; me; my
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 欢huānjoyous; happy; pleased
• 牧mùto herd; to breed livestock; to govern (old)
• 坎kǎnpit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦
• 枚méiclassifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs…

Sounds the same

Read gōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 工work; worker; skill
• 公public; collectively owned; common
• 功meritorious deed or service; achievement; result
• 供to provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
• 恭respectful
• 宫palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment)
• 躬(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself…
• 弓a bow (weapon); to bend; to arch (one's back etc)
• 红used in 女红
• 蚣used in 蜈蚣
• 肱upper arm; arm
• 觥big; cup made of horn; horn wine container