gāng
ridge or crest of hill
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 网 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 岡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
ridge | ||
Jinggang Mountains, in the Jiangxi-Hunan border region | ||
Vatican City | ||
Oregon | ||
Oregon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.4599% of movies
2339th most common character in movies
2047th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5CA1 |
Shuowen | “岡，山骨也。从山，网聲。” |
Sources
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