cóng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a ritual jade tube, square outside and round-bored (classical)

Examples

良渚文化玉琮著名古代礼器
Liángzhǔ wénhuà de yùcóng shì zhùmíng de gǔdài lǐqì.
The jade cong, 玉琮, of the Liangzhu culture is a famous ancient ritual object.

Tips

history
is not a general modern word; it names a specific ancient jade artifact, square on the outside with a round bore, used to honor the earth. It appears mainly in archaeology, as in 玉琮. It joins the jade radical with for the sound.
register
Classical and specialist — found in archaeology and old ritual texts, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
jade
Left-side jade radical, written like but standing for (jade). It fixes as a jade object, like and .
phonetic
zōng
ancestor; clan
on the right supplies the sound (zōng to cóng) and suits the ritual use of the object. The same phonetic appears in and .

Stroke Order

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