(kòng) - to control, to accuse in Mandarin
kòngTraditional: 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
控
Examples
绪。
You should control your emotions.
。
He controlled the entire company.
脾。
He cannot control his temper.
。
Parents should not control their children too strictly.
温。
This system can control the temperature.
控 (kòng) means to control or restrain; the standard compound is 控制 (kòngzhì), to control.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 控.
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