Chinese Character Wiki
剛

gāng

hard

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 岡 represents the sound.

Components
岡 sound component

岡  Sound component

gāng

  

ridge or crest of hill

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

剛 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
剛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

刚 (剛) 

gāng

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

Most common words with 剛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

刚

hard

刚刚

just recently

刚才

just now

刚好

just

金刚

diamond

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤaŋ

kang

gāng

strong; hard


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 92.1832% of movies

253rd most common character in movies

621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

刚

Unicode

U+525B

Shuowen

“剛，彊，斷也。从刀，岡聲。”


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