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貢

cjk unified ideograph-8ca2

Tribute

貢 marks an offering moving from lower status to higher authority. Chinese compounds can mean contribution; Japanese 貢ぐ means supporting someone with money or goods. The tribute sense carries obligation.

Text symbol
Also called
gòng · gong4 · みつぐ
Search it as
contribution · 贡 · 朝貢 · 貢獻 · 貢ぐ
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 貢 means

It refers to goods or value given to a superior.

Traditional analysis treats 貝 as the valuables component and 工 as the sound component.

A Western Zhou bronze inscription records cloth and crops owed to a ruler. The 《禹貢》 (“Tribute of Yu”) chapter in an ancient Chinese book lists regional offerings; scholars usually date its composition to the Warring States period, an era of rival states, though the date is debated.

Formal in tribute contexts; neutral in contribution compounds.

Tribute carries hierarchy and obligation.

What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings
Chinese 朝貢
State tribute to a superior court.
Chinese 貢獻
Contribution to a shared cause.
Japanese 貢ぐ
Supporting someone with money or goods.
Korean 공납
Historical collection of local goods for the state.

Questions people ask

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Why does 貢 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 貢

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8CA2, then Alt+X to get 貢.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-8ca2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8ca2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
貢
CSS
\8CA2
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
貢
HTML hex
貢
CSS content
content: "\8CA2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B2%A2
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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