漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
共: together, both
Also: neither, all, and, alike, with
JLPT N36 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 共通きょうつうcommon, shared
- 共通語きょうつうごcommon language
- 共同きょうどうcollaboration, partnership
- 共産党きょうさんとうCommunist Party
- 公共こうきょうpublic
- 共感するきょうかんするresonate
- 共有するきょうゆうするshare [v.t.]
- 共存するきょうそんするcoexist
ともtomo · kun'yomi · on its own
- 共稼ぎともかせぎworking couple
- 両方共りょうほうともboth
ともにtomoni · kun'yomi
- 共にともにtogether, both
-ども-domo · kun'yomi
- 私共わたくしどもwe [hum.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)廾 two hands + 口 an object
Source: Wiktionary, 共 (rev. 92310443), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Split it right down the middle! This radical carries the energy of division and the clarity of separation.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
共 gives its sound to
The family reading is キョウ (kyou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gòng
Same form: 共 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 共 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 共 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gòng 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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