(gōng) - merit, achievement, work (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
gōngTraditional: 功
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Translation
merit, achievement, work (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound of 工 (gong, work) supplying the sound and 力 (li, strength) on the right giving the sense of effort, together meaning merit or achievement.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 工 (gong, phonetic) + 力 (li, strength)
Stroke order
功
Examples
。
He finally succeeded.
偶。
Success is not an accident.
。
I hope you succeed in the exam.
扎。
His skills have been trained solidly.
。
Success takes hard work.
功 (gōng) means achievement or merit. It is a bound morpheme that anchors success-related words, most famously 成功 (chéng gōng), success.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 功.
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