gāng

steel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

岡 sound component

  Sound component

gāng

  

ridge or crest of hill

Definitions

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gāng

steel; hard, strong, tough

Most common words with 鋼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

钢琴

piano

steel

钢铁

steel

钢笔

fountain pen

钢材

steel (as raw material)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.kˤaŋ

kang

gāng

cast iron; steel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.6382% of movies

1668th most common character in movies

1609th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+92FC


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