Chinese symbol for “indict”

控告

kòng gào

to accuse; to charge; to indict

The closest CC-CEDICT match for indict is 控告 (kòng gào), defined as: to accuse; to charge; to indict.

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Characters and stroke order

控 kòng

to accuse, to charge; to control; to sue

radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

告 gào

to tell, to inform, to announce; to accuse

radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 控告.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
控制	kòng zhì	to control
监控 (監控)	jiān kòng	to monitor
指控	zhǐ kòng	accusation; a (criminal) charge
控股	kòng gǔ	to own a controlling number of shares in a company
失控	shī kòng	to go out of control
报告 (報告)	bào gào	to inform; to report
告诉 (告訴)	gào sù	to press charges; to file a complaint
广告 (廣告)	guǎng gào	to advertise; a commercial

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.