Kilo Lingo

(kòng) - to control, to accuse in Mandarin

kòng

Traditional: 控

Line drawing of 控
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Translation

to control, to accuse

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌gives the meaning of drawing in or reining back, hence to control, and 空 (kōng) supplies the sound.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
扌(hand radical) + 空 (kōng, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 控

Examples

You should control your emotions.

He controlled the entire company.

He cannot control his temper.

Parents should not control their children too strictly.

wēn

This system can control the temperature.

控 (kòng) means to control or restrain; the standard compound is 控制 (kòngzhì), to control.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 控.

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This word is part of lesson 106.