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gǒng

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gǒng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gǒng | gong3
English translation
mercury (element)

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About gǒng

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

gǒng

Contains the radical

Shuǐ

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

water

Etymology of gǒng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

工水

Semantic compound

Shuǐ

Phonetic compound

gōng

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Shuǐ represents the meaning and gōng represents the sound. Simplified form of hòng .

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Example sentences using gǒng

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Léi gǒng Zhōng 可能 kěnéng 含有 hán yǒu 微量 wēi liàng de 乙二酸 gǒng .

Mercury fulminate may contain trace of mercuric oxalate.

Words with gǒng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
gǒng mercury (chemistry) gǒng
甘汞 gān gǒng calomel or mercurous chloride (Hg2Cl2)甘汞 gān gǒng
毫米汞柱 háo mǐ gǒng zhù millimeter of mercury毫米汞柱 háo mǐ gǒng zhù
升汞 shēng gǒng mercuric chloride (HgCl)升汞 shēng gǒng

gǒng Decomposition & Compounds

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