共
Meanings
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- 1.common
- 2.general
- 3.to share
- 4.together
- 5.total
- 6.altogether
- 7.abbr. for 共产党[Gòng chǎn dǎng], Communist party
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Wiktionary
- 1.common
- 2.together
- 3.to share
- 4.altogether
- 5.short for 共產黨／共产党 (gòngchǎndǎng, “communist party”)
- 6.the Communist Party of China
- 7.and
- 8.with; to
- 9.for
- 10.Used in imperative sentences for emphasis
- 11.Particle introducing the object of the verb
- 12.same
- 13.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 廾 (“two hands”) + 口 (“an object”) – holding up an object with two hands. Eventually 口 (not “mouth”) came to be written 廿 (not “twenty”), which later fused with 廾 to form the modern 共. Possibly the original form of 供 (“to provide; to offer”). Possibly related to 廾 (OC *k(r)oŋʔ, “to fold the hands in front of the breast”), with the stativizing prefix *N- (Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Schuessler (2007) also relates this word to 供 (OC *kloŋ, *kloŋs, “to provide”) and suggests the possibility of also relating it to 恭 (OC *kloŋ, “to respect”) and 貢 (OC *koːŋs, “tribute”). The kā reading in Hokkien is from the weakening of kāng (Wu, 2017; Chappell et al., 2011).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你共住一个房间吗？
Do you share a room?
您共住一个房间吗？
Do you share a room?
你们共住一个房间吗？
Do you share a room?
没有人可以共侍二主。
No man can serve two masters.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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