gāng
steel
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 岡 represents the sound.
Components
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.kˤaŋ | kang | gāng | cast iron; steel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.6382% of movies
1668th most common character in movies
1609th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+92FC |
Sources
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