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供

供

供 U+4F9B, 供
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F9B
← 侚
[U+4F9A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 侜 →
[U+4F9C]

Translingual

Han character

供 (radical 9 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人廿金 (OTC), four-corner 24281, composition ⿰亻共)

References

  • KangXi: page 102, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 605
  • Dae Jaweon: page 216, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 144, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4F9B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 供

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 供 供
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 九容切 居用切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨoŋ/ /kɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kioŋ/ /kioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kioŋ/ /kioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kuawŋ/ /kuawŋH/
Li
Rong		 /kioŋ/ /kioŋH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭwoŋ/ /kĭwoŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯woŋ/ /ki̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiōng jiòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 供
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k<r>oŋ/
English furnish; serve, offer

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 供 供
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4167 4178
Phonetic
component		 共 共
Rime
group		 東 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 恭 供
Old
Chinese		 /*kloŋ/ /*kloŋs/

Definitions

供

  1. to supply, provide for
  2. to offer in worship

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

供

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
供
とも
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Noun

供 ‎(hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

  1. attendant, servant
  2. companion
  3. entourage

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

供 • ‎(gong) (hangeul 공, McCune-Reischauer kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

供 (cung, cúng, củng, cũng)

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References

Etymology

From person 亻(who gives you something) and phonetic 共. Meaning to supply.

Historical forms of the character 供
Small seal script
Large seal script

L00855

L00856
Small seal script

s05738
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

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