Goblet is pronounced gōng.

I. Basic Character Meanings

Goblet is pinyinized as gōng, with the initials horn, 13 strokes, and the five elements fire, and the five strokes are QEIQ, an ancient wine vessel made of animal horns, ~chip intermingled (describing a lively scene where many people meet for a drink).

Two, the basic explanation

Goble is an ancient Chinese wine container. It was popular from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty. Oval or square body, rim or four feet. With a cover, the cover is made into a horned animal head or a long nose upward curled elephant head. Some goblets are made into animal-like, head, back for the cover, body for the abdomen, four legs for the foot. And the decorative pattern of the goblet is similar to the ??zun, bird and animal wine containers.

Some people therefore mistake it for an animal-shaped zun. However, the goblet is different from the animal-shaped zun, the goblet cover is made in the shape of an animal head connected to the back of the animal, and the flow of the goblet is in the shape of an animal's neck, which can be used for pouring wine.

Three, detailed explanation

1, the sound. From the horn, yellow sound, commonly from the light sound. _, the horns of an ancient bull or ox can be used for drinking. --Shuowen; I'm going to drink from the bull's horn. --Poetry--Zhounan--Curled Ear. --Transmission: "The horned jug is also."

2. Great, plentiful. The goblet is not as big as the pot of food. -- "Guoyu - Yue Yue"; the meaning of goblet and sheep. --Yang Xiong, "Taixuan - Yi"

3, Rigid, robust look Guanzhong goblet, Guo Zi Heng. -- Hou Han Shu - Guo Xian biography. Note: "The appearance of rigidity and straightness."

4. Elephantine. Peng Gobo (Elephantine. (the sound of crashing wooden boards, jade, etc.).