拱

拱 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手廿金 (QTC), four-corner 5408₁, composition ⿰扌共)

• 𫪵

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 428, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11994
• Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1867, character 2
• Unihan data for U+62F1

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kloŋʔ): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 共 (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs).

拱

1. to fold the hands in front of the breast
2. to bow; to salute
3. to surround; to encircle

   眾星拱月／众星拱月  ―  zhòngxīnggǒngyuè  ―  to crowd around

4. (archaic) area enclosed by the arms
5. to push upwards or outwards
6. to sprout
7. to arch
8. arched

• (to surround):

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “拱”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 231.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. arch
2. fold arms

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: こまぬく (komanuku, 拱く)、こまねく (komaneku, 拱く)

拱 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

1. fold hands on breast
2. bow, salute

拱: Hán Việt readings: củng^[1][2][3][4], cũng^[5]
拱: Nôm readings: cũng^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}, cõng^{[2][3][4][5][6]}, cùng^[1][2][3][7], cùm^[7], cúng^[7], ngỏng^[7], ngõng^[7]

1. chữ Nôm form of cùm (“fetters”)
2. chữ Nôm form of cúng (“(religion, occult) to give offerings, to enshrine, to worship”)
3. chữ Nôm form of cùng (“with; and; same”)
4. chữ Nôm form of cũng (“also; too”)
5. chữ Nôm form of ngỏng (“(usually of a body part) to stretch high and tall; to raise high”)