gǒng
拱 (gǒng) is a Chinese word meaning “to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch”.
Meanings
- 1to cup one's hands in salute
- 2to surround
- 3to arch
- 4to dig earth with the snout
- 5arched
- Part of speech
- verb
Related words
拱手to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting拱门arched door拱形arch拱桥arch bridge拱道archway拱柱pillar of a vault众星拱辰lit. all the stars revolve around Polaris 北辰[Bei3 chen2] (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure假拱blind arch半拱semiarch双曲拱桥double arched bridge圆拱a round vault打拱to bow with clasped hands