gong

Meanings

Noun

• A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
• A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
• An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
• A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
• An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.

Verb

• To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
• To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
• To give an award or medal to.

Origin

• From Malay gong, possibly .
• From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang, derived from the verb gangan, whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. gang.
• From Mandarin 功 ("merit; achievement").