漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
供: submit, offer
Also: present, serve (meal), accompany
JLPT N38 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 共 gives the sound
8 strokes
Five readings, and the words that use each
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 試供品しきょうひんsample
- 提供するていきょうするoffer
- 供給するきょうきゅうするsupply
クku · on'yomi
- 供物くもつoffering (for Buddhist altar)
- 供養するくようするhold service for the deceased
そなえるsonaeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 供えるそなえるdedicate
ともtomo · kun'yomi
- お供するおともするkeep company
-ども-domo · kun'yomi
- 子供こどもchild
Also read クウ, グ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 共 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 供 (rev. 94488747), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
共
Also built on together (共)
供 takes the 共 family's reading, キョウ (kyou).
Also read クウ
2 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side供 submit · 亻
vs洪 deluge · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gōng
Same form: 供 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 供 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 供 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gōng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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