拱
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to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch; to dig earth with the snout; arched
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 拱
- Common rank
- #1,821
- Unicode
- U+62F1
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
arch · Heisig RSH #2768
fingers + 共 together
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 拱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 众星拱月 | see 眾星捧月|众星捧月[zhong4 xing1 peng3 yue4] | |
| 远拱点 | (astronomy) apoapsis | |
| 双曲拱桥 | double arched bridge | |
| 拱手让人 | (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance | |
| 拱手相让 | (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance | |
| 近拱点 | (astronomy) periapsis | |
| 拱手 | to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive | |
| 拱道 | archway | |
| 拱门 | arched door | |
| 打拱 | to bow with clasped hands | |
| 拱点 | (astronomy) apsis; apse | |
| 拱火 | (dialect) (fig.) to fan the flames; to fuel sb's anger | |
| 拱度 | camber | |
| 拱形 | arch | |
| 半拱 | semiarch; half arch | |
| 斗拱 | dougong – an interlocking wooden bracket system between the top of a column and a crossbea… | |
| 假拱 | blind arch; false arch | |
| 拱卫 | to surround and protect | |
| 猪拱菌 | Chinese truffle | |
| 拱顶 | an arched roof; a dome; a vault |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 共 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共 sound part | all, total; together; to share | |
| 恭 | polite, respectful, reverent | |
| 粪 | manure, dung; shit, excrement | |
| 哄 | to coax; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive; tumult, uproar | |
| 烘 | to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire | |
| 珙 | precious stone; a county in Sichuan | |
| 蕻 | budding, flourishing | |
| 龚 | to give, to present; reverential | |
| 栱 | stake, post; pillar; peg | |
| 輂 | horse-drawn carriage | |
| 衖 | alley, lane |