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surname Gong
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palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale
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How to pronounce 宫

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= gu initial

Gu is for Gitta Giraffe.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ (e)ng1 final

In front of the engine.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

宫 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
= + Ø3
pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
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mián = mi + an2
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]
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Characters with 宫 as component

宫 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 宫

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palace maid / CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2],位[wei4]
imperial palace
the Louvre, museum in Paris

Sentences with 宫

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gōng

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