巩gǒng
to bind, to guard, to strengthen; firm, secure, strong. 6 strokes, radical 工, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin gǒngStrokes 6Radical 工Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 巩
Strokes 1–3 write 工, then strokes 4–6 write 凡.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 巩 · the stroke-order rules
What 巩 is made of
工 (gōng, labor) and 凡 (fán, any).
凡 carries the meaning — all — and 工 carries the sound.
Words that use 巩
| 巩固 | to consolidate, strengthen 指使更加稳固牢靠 边防官兵英勇击退境外武装攻击，巩固国家边防。This strengthened the nation's border defenses. Lesson 584, 固本拓疆 · 艺苑流芳与经世济民 · Civic Governance & Cultural Renaissance |
Characters that share the sound part 工
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.