gāng

heavy rope

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

冈 sound component

  Sound component

gāng

  

ridge or crest of hill

Evolution

纲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
纲 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
纲 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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gāng

heavy rope, hawser; main points; head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program

Most common words with 纲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

key link

大纲

synopsis

纲要

outline

纲领

guiding principle

提纲

outline

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 1.0892% of movies

3224th most common character in movies

1934th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+7EB2


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