钢
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steel
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #982 U+94A2
How 钢 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
钅 (semantic, “metal”) + 冈 (phonetic, gāng)
How to remember it
steel · Heisig RSH #2539
metal + 冈 ridge of a hill
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 冈
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 冈 (gāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冈 sound component | gāng | ridge or crest of hill |
| 刚 | gāng | hard, strong, tough; just, barely |
| 岗 | gǎng | post; position |
| 纲 | gāng | program, outline; principle, guiding thread |
Words containing 钢
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢城区 | Gāng chéng Qū | Gangcheng, a district of Jinan City 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4], Shandong |
| 钢铁工业 | gāng tiě gōng yè | steel industry |
| 武汉钢铁公司 | Wǔ hàn Gāng tiě Gōng sī | Wuhan Iron and Steel |
| 工字钢 | gōng zì gāng | I-beam |
| 钢铁学院 | Gāng tiě Xué yuàn | Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (the former name of 北京科技大學|北京科技大学[Bei3 jing1 Ke1 ji4 Da4 … |
| 人是铁饭是钢 | rén shì tiě fàn shì gāng | one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom); an empty sack cannot stand uprigh… |
| 宝武钢铁 | Bǎo wǔ Gāng tiě | Baowu, the world's largest steel maker, resulting from the merger of Baosteel 寶鋼集團|宝钢集团[Ba… |
| 白钢 | bái gāng | steel |
| 钢花 | gāng huā | spray (or sparks) of molten steel |
| 钢骨水泥 | gāng gǔ shuǐ ní | reinforced concrete |
| 恨铁不成钢 | hèn tiě bù chéng gāng | lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom); fig. frustrated with sb who … |
| 钢城 | Gāng chéng | see 鋼城區|钢城区[Gang1 cheng2 Qu1] |
| 钢丝球 | gāng sī qiú | stainless steel scourer |
| 钢铁直男 | gāng tiě zhí nán | (slang) an extremely "straight" man: direct, literal-minded, practical and unromantic, and… |
| 威而钢 | Wēi ér gāng | Viagra (male impotence drug) (Tw) |
| 钢管 | gāng guǎn | steel pipe; pole (in pole dancing) |
| 舞钢市 | Wǔ gāng Shì | Wugang, a county-level city in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市[Ping2 ding3 shan1 Shi4], Henan |
| 钢制 | gāng zhì | made of steel; steel (bar, screw, product etc) |
| 角钢 | jiǎo gāng | angle iron |
| 小钢珠 | xiǎo gāng zhū | pachinko |