HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Adverbs

共 gòng “altogether” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 共 means

  1. altogether
  2. in total
  3. together
  4. common
  5. general
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to share
  • total

How to say 共

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale共gòng4th tone, falling

共 in a sentence

  1. 你一共花了多少钱？

    Nǐ yígòng huā le duōshǎo qián?

    How much did you spend altogether?

    Sentence #1454462 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我跟她有很多共同点。

    Wǒ gēn tā yǒu hěn duō gòngtóngdiǎn.

    I have a lot in common with her.

    Sentence #11698188 from Tatoeba

  3. 总共有五十个人。

    Zǒnggòng yǒu wǔshí ge rén.

    There were fifty people in all.

    Sentence #1529520 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 共 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 共 (gòng) with each of its parts in a different colour
共gòngcommon
  • 廾two hands · gǒng
  • 一one · yī
  • 八eight · bā

Memory aidTwo hands 廾 holding something up together: together, shared.

How to write 共

共 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

共 (gòng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 共 (gòng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 共

Words with 共

公共汽车gōnggòng qìchē · bus一共yígòng · altogether共同gòngtóng · common总共zǒnggòng · altogether共鸣gòngmíng · resonance共计gòngjì · to total共和国gònghéguó · republic

More words: Adverbs & Degree

刚刚gānggāng · just now越来越yuèláiyuè · more and more就要jiùyào · about to再次zàicì · once again仍réng · still仅jǐn · only更加gèngjiā · even more实际上shíjìshàng · in fact

FAQs

共 (gòng) means “altogether” or “in total”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it gòng: gòng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 共 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 共 from the suggestions. Typing gong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
共 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.