# 龔

| 龔 | U+9F94, &#40852; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F94 |
| ← 龓 [U+9F93] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 龕 → [U+9F95] |

## Translingual
### Han character

龔 (Kangxi radical 212, 龍+6, 22 strokes, cangjie input 難卜心廿金 (XYPTC) or 卜心廿金 (YPTC), four-corner 0180$_1$, composition ⿱龍共)
* give, present
* reverential
* a surname

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48837
* Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4805, character 12
* Unihan data for U+9F94

## Chinese

* 龔姓

### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 龔 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 港 | *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs |
| 巷 | *ɡroːŋs |
| 衖 | *ɡroːŋs |
| 鬨 | *ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs |
| 烘 | *qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs |
| 洪 | *ɡloːŋ |
| 鉷 | *ɡloːŋ |
| 谼 | *ɡloːŋ |
| 葓 | *ɡoːŋ |
| 哄 | *ɡloːŋs |
| 蕻 | *ɡloːŋs |
| 恭 | *kloŋ |
| 供 | *kloŋ, *kloŋs |
| 龔 | *kloŋ |
| 珙 | *kloŋ, *kloŋʔ |
| 共 | *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs |
| 髸 | *kloŋ |
| 拱 | *kloŋʔ |
| 拲 | *kloŋʔ, *kloɡ |
| 蛬 | *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ |
| 栱 | *kloŋʔ |
| 輁 | *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ |
| 舼 | *ɡloŋ |
| 輂 | *kloɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gōng (gong$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): gung$^1$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): guung$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): gṳ̄ng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gorng$^1$ / gorng$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): kéng / kióng
    (Teochew, Peng'im): gong$^1$ / giong$^1$ / giong$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gōng
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gong
*** Wade–Giles: kung$^1$
*** Yale: gūng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
*** Palladius: гун (gun)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gung$^1$
*** Yale: gūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: guung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɵŋ³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: gṳ̄ng
*** Sinological IPA : /kyŋ³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gorng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɒŋ⁵³³/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gorng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɒŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gorng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɒŋ³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéng
*** Tâi-lô: kíng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: keang
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kióng
*** Tâi-lô: kióng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kiorng
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /kiɔŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɔŋ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
* kéng - vernacular (incl. surname);
* kióng - literary.
* Middle Chinese: kjowng
Rime :
| Character | 龔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 鍾 (7) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 九容切 |
| Baxter | kjowng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kɨoŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kioŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kioŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kuawŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /kioŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭwoŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ki̯woŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jiōng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gung$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*k<r>oŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kloŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 龔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gōng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kjowng › |
| Old Chinese | /*k<r>oŋ/ |
| English | respectful |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 龔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4168 |
| Phonetic component | 共 |
| Rime group | 東 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 恭 |
| Old Chinese | /*kloŋ/ |

### Definitions

龔
* Alternative form of 供 (“to supply”)
* Alternative form of 恭 (gōng, “to respect”)
* to follow; to obey
* a surname
    龔自珍／龚自珍 ― Gōng Zìzhēn ― Gong Zizhen (Qing dynasty writer and intellectual)

#### Compounds

* 龔勝不屈／龚胜不屈
* 龔場／龚场 (Gōngchǎng)
* 龔河／龚河 (Gōnghé)
* 龔生／龚生
* 龔行天罰／龚行天罚
* 龔遂勸農／龚遂劝农
* 龔黃滿朝／龚黄满朝

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* give
* present
* referential

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)、く (ku)、よう (yō)、ゆ (yu)
* Kun: そなえる (sonaeru)

## Korean
### Hanja

龔 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)
* polite, reverent
* to supply
* respect

## Vietnamese
### Han character

龔: Hán Nôm readings: cung
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