gǎng

port, harbor

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

巷 sound component

  Sound component

xiàng

  

alley

Evolution

港 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
港 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gǎng

port, harbor; small stream; bay; harbor; port; CL:|[gè]

 

Gǎng

Hong Kong, abbr. for 香港[Xiāng​gǎng]; surname Gang

Most common words with 港
Freq.
Word
Meaning

香港

Hong Kong

harbor

港口

port

海港

seaport

港元

Hong Kong dollar

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.1302% of movies

1814th most common character in movies

927th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E2F

Shuowen

“,水派也,从水聲。”


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