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觥

gōng

Character

What 觥 means

1. big
2. cup made of horn
3. horn wine container

Words starting with 觥

• 觥筹交错gōng chóu jiāo cuòwine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined; to drink and gamble together in a large…

Words containing 觥

• 飞觥走斝fēi gōng zǒu jiǎto drink one's fill (idiom)
• 兕觥sì gōngancient type of drinking vessel

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
• 攻to attack; to accuse; to study
• 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

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng correctly.
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