GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 383

弓

弓 is read as gōng.

Pinyin

gōng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 弓

Basic meaning

bow; curved, arched; Kangxi radical 57

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Lu state in modern Shandong for the Shugen / Shugong ancestor-name layer; Taiyuan commandery prestige geography; later Shanxi family-library distribution context

Origin note

Gong/弓 should be read as more than the everyday word for a bow. The strongest surname-origin layer connects it with the Spring and Autumn Lu figure Shugong, whose descendants are said to have taken Gong from the ancestor name. A second layer comes from offices connected with bow and crossbow manufacture, such as Gongzheng or Gongfu, where descendants used an official title as a surname. These traditions are kept separate from the basic character meaning of a bow or curved measure.

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