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(gòng) - supply, provide (bound; also gōng) in Mandarin

gòng

Traditional: 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

Stroke order for 供

Examples

The company provides dinner.

This company supplies fruit.

They supply water and food.

He confessed his accomplice to the police.

chǎng

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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