宮 Simplified: 宫 On the HSK 6 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. gōng ㄍㄨㄥ palace temple castration (as corporal punishment) first note in pentatonic scale Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT