杠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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

gāng, gàng

lever

A wooden 木 lever 工; 工 also provides the pronunciation

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

工 Sound Meaning component

gōng

work

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

杠

gāng

lever, pole, crowbar; sharpen; flagpole; footbridge

杠

gàng

variant of 槓|杠[gàng]

杠 (槓)

gàng

thick pole; bar; rod; thick line; to mark with a thick line; to sharpen (knife); (old) coffin-bearing pole

Most common words with 杠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	杠	bar
	杠杆	lever
	保险杠	car bumper
	杠铃	barbell
	单杠	bar

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2585% of movies

2883rd most common character in movies

3066th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+6760
Shuowen	“杠，牀前橫木也。从木，工聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Freq.

Word

Meaning