gāng

hard

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冈 sound component

  Sound component

gāng

  

ridge or crest of hill

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

Evolution

刚 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
刚 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
刚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
刚 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
刚 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
刚 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gāng

hard, tough, rigid, strong; hard; firm; strong; just; barely; exactly

Most common words with 刚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hard

刚刚

just recently

刚才

just now

刚好

just

金刚

diamond

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 92.1832% of movies

253rd most common character in movies

621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+521A


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