(gōng) - attack in Mandarin
gōngTraditional: 攻
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Translation
attack
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: 工 (gong) on the left supplies the sound, and 攵 (the strike radical) on the right gives the sense of striking, hence to attack.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 工 (gong, phonetic) + 攵 (strike radical)
Stroke order
攻
Examples
。
They launched an attack.
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Do not attack others.
网。
This was a cyber attack.
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The enemy attacked into the city.
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The team attacks mainly on the left side.
攻 (gōng) means attack, paired with 击 (jī) in 攻击 (gōng jī).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 攻.
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