Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- gǒng
English
- fold hands on breast
- to cup one's hands in salute
- bow, salute
- to surround
- to arch
- to dig earth with the snout
- arched
- to hump up; to arch
粵語
- 彎曲成弧形；隆起
As a component in
Words containing 拱
- 拱門gung2 mun4
arched door
- 拱手gung2 sau2
to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting
- 拱形gung2 jing4
arch
- 拱橋gung2 kiu4
arch bridge
- 打拱daa2 gung2
to bow with clasped hands
- 拱起gung2 hei2
to push up imperceptibly from below; to curl up
- 拱度gung2 dou6
camber
- 半拱bun3 gung2
semiarch
- 拱狀gung2 zong6
arch
- 拱衛gung2 wai6
to surround and protect
- 拱柱gung2 cyu5
pillar of a vault
- 拱肩gung2 gin1
a spandrel (wall filling the shoulder between two neighboring arches)
- 拱璧gung2 bik1
a flat round jade ornament with a hole at the center
- 拱點gung2 dim2
(astronomy) apsis; apse
- 拱道gung2 dou6
archway
- 拱火gung2 fo2
(dialect) (fig.) to fan the flames; to fuel sb's anger
- 拱北gung2 bak1
Gongbei
- 假拱gaa2 gung2
blind arch
- 拱頂gung2 ding2
an arched roof
- 枓拱dau2 gung2
variant of 斗拱[dou3 gong3]
- 圓拱jyun4 gung2
a round vault
- 斗拱dau3 gung2
dougong – an interlocking wooden bracket system between the top of a column and a crossbeam, used in traditional Chinese architecture to support overhanging roofs, composed of blocks and arms fitted together without nails
- 拱抱gung2 pou5
to enfold
- 拱廊gung2 long4
triforium (gallery of arches above side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church)