a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

Mnemonic symbol: this character just looks like a composite bow.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is shooting arrows with a composite bow (弓) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

弓 character breakdown

The character 弓 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 弓 as component

younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)

= + + + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: Jesse James, the younger one of the James brothers (弟).

A mean crocodile (丷) harasses Dorothy Gale (di) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but Jesse James (弟) is there to stop him. With a composite bow (弓), he shoots a banana (丿) as a warning shot; as the banana doesn't stop the crocodile, Jesse shoots a dinosaur bone (丨) right into the crocodile's crotch.
see 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]
congee / gruel / porridge / CL:碗[wan3]

= + : James II of England (zh) is making rice gruel (粥) by having his army shooting arrows at a sack of rice (米) in front of the outhouse (ou1) using many composite bows (弜).
variant of 強|强[qiang2]

= + : The Queen of Hearts is about to explore the catacombs of the anglepod. In the kitchen, she feels strong and well prepared: although she walks through the valley of the shadow of death, she will fear no evil. Especially since she brought her composite bow and a big bucket of body building protein powder making her strong.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: many body-builders drink a lot of drinks made from protein powder. I'll represent 强 by a big bucket of protein powder.
variant of 強|强[qiang3]
surname Qiang

= + : Mnemonic symbol: many body-builders drink a lot of drinks made from protein powder. I'll represent 强 by a big bucket of protein powder.

= + : The Queen of Hearts is about to explore the catacombs of the anglepod. In the kitchen, she feels strong and well prepared: although she walks through the valley of the shadow of death, she will fear no evil. Especially since she brought her composite bow and a big bucket of body building protein powder making her strong.
stubborn / unyielding
strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]

= + : The Queen of Hearts is about to explore the catacombs of the anglepod. In the kitchen, she feels strong and well prepared: although she walks through the valley of the shadow of death, she will fear no evil. Especially since she brought her composite bow and a big bucket of body building protein powder making her strong.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: many body-builders drink a lot of drinks made from protein powder. I'll represent 强 by a big bucket of protein powder.
to force / to compel / to strive / to make an effort
variant of 強|强[jiang4]
great / liberal

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is liberally (弘) shooting fake noses (厶) with a bow (弓) in the engines kitchen ((e)ng2).
arc

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is cutting a melon (瓜) into arcs (弧) using the string of a bow (弓) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2).
weak; feeble / young / inferior; not as good as / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
weak / feeble / young / inferior / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros (ru) created a piece of art in the observatory's bathroom (o4). She joined many composite bows (弓) by sticking their ends into popsicles (冫) which weren frozen again afterwards. Her whole construction is a huge armchair, but it is very fragile and weak (弱), so Rachel puts on it many of these "handle with care" stickers.

Words with 弓

lit. to shoot from both sides (idiom) / fig. to display ambidexterity / to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession / to use both feet equally (football)
pantograph (transportation)
bow and crossbow
bowed / curved like a bow
see 驚弓之鳥|惊弓之鸟[jing1 gong1 zhi1 niao3]

Sentences with 弓

弓 currently does not appear in any sentence.