纲 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

gāng

heavy rope

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 冈 represents the sound. Simplified form of 綱.

Components

纟 Meaning component

mì, sī

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

冈 Sound component

gāng

ridge or crest of hill

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

gāng

heavy rope, hawser; main points; head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program

Most common words with 纲

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 1.0892% of movies

3224th most common character in movies

1934th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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