Chinese Character Wiki

扛

káng, gāng

carry on shoulders

Labor 工 done by hand 扌; 工 also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

工 sound,meaning component

工  Sound Meaning component

gōng

  

work

Evolution

扛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扛  

káng

carry on shoulders; lift; to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)

扛  

gāng

to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together

扛 (摃) 

gāng

old variant of 扛[gāng]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2105% of movies

3019th most common character in movies

2989th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+625B

Shuowen

“扛，橫關對舉也。从手，工聲。”


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