kōng / kǒng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 倥侗: ignorant; unenlightened

Examples

Wén zhōng xiě de shì yì zhǒng kōng tóng wúzhī de zhuàngtài.
The text describes a state of childlike ignorance.
Gǔ yǔ kōng tóng zhǐ méngmèi wèi kāihuà.
The ancient phrase 'kongtong' means dim and untaught.

Tips

usage
First tone is bound to the literary word 倥侗 (ignorant, unenlightened). A separate reading carries the unrelated 'pressed for time, harried' sense in 倥偬.

Components

radical
rén
person
Left is the side-person radical , the standing form of . It marks a word about a human condition — here a person's untaught, blank state of mind.
phonetic
kōng
empty (phonetic, with hollow-mind hint)
Right is , giving the sound kōng and a fitting overtone: an empty, unfilled head. Person plus emptiness suggests an unenlightened, knowledge-less mind.

Stroke Order

kōng