Chinese Character Wiki
抗

kàng

resist

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 亢 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

亢 sound component

亢  Sound component

kàng

  

high

Evolution

抗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
抗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
抗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
抗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

抗  

kàng

resist, oppose, defy, reject; to resist; to fight; to defy; anti-

Most common words with 抗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抗

to resist

对抗

to withstand

反抗

to resist

抵抗

to resist

抗议

to protest

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤaŋ-s

khangH

kàng

set up; oppose; protect


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 32.9489% of movies

1097th most common character in movies

766th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6297

Shuowen

“抗，扞也。从手，亢聲。杭，抗或从木。”


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