拱 — Chinese character
拱
gǒng
to salute, to bow; arched; arch
- Pinyin
- gǒng
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 共
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 共
- Japanese
- 拱 as a kanji
Common words with 拱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拱门 (拱門) | gǒng mén | arched door |
| 拱手 | gǒng shǒu | to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive |
| 拱形 | gǒng xíng | arch |
| 拱桥 (拱橋) | gǒng qiáo | arch bridge |
| 斗拱 | dǒu gǒng | dougong – an interlocking wooden bracket system between the top of a column and a crossbeam, used in traditional Chinese architecture to support overhanging roo |
| 拱卫 (拱衛) | gǒng wèi | to surround and protect |
| 拱顶 (拱頂) | gǒng dǐng | an arched roof; a dome |
| 拱廊 | gǒng láng | triforium (gallery of arches above side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church) |
| 拱坝 (拱壩) | gǒng bà | an arch dam |
| 拱手相让 (拱手相讓) | gǒng shǒu xiāng ràng | (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance |
| 拱手让人 (拱手讓人) | gǒng shǒu ràng rén | (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance |
| 双曲拱桥 (雙曲拱橋) | shuāng qū gǒng qiáo | double arched bridge |
English words written with 拱
拱 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.