(gòng) - supply, provide (bound; also gōng) in Mandarin
gòngTraditional: 供
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Translation
supply, provide (bound; also gōng)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the person radical 亻on the left relates the action to people, and 共 (gong, together) supplies the sound, giving the sense of to supply or provide.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 共 (gong, phonetic)
Stroke order
供
Examples
。
The company provides dinner.
。
This company supplies fruit.
。
They supply water and food.
。
He confessed his accomplice to the police.
厂。
The factory can supply both power and water.
供 (gòng/gōng) means to supply or provide, the second half of 提供 (tígōng) and the head of 供应 (gōngyìng, supply).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 供.
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