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鋼

鋼

See also: 钢

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (岡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
岡 *klaːŋ
崗 *klaːŋ
剛 *klaːŋ
掆 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
鋼 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
綱 *klaːŋ
犅 *klaːŋ
堈 *klaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs) : semantic 金 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 岡 ‎(OC *klaːŋ).

Han character

鋼 (radical 167 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金月廿山 (CBTU), four-corner 87120, composition ⿰釒岡)

  1. steel
  2. hard, strong, tough

References

  • KangXi: page 1309, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40509
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1810, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4220, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+92FC

Chinese

trad. 鋼
simp. 钢

Alternative forms

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 鋼 鋼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 唐 (101) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 古郎切 古浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaŋ/ /kaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑŋ/ /kɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gāng gàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鋼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.kˤaŋ/
English cast iron; steel

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鋼 鋼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3715 3719
Phonetic
component		 岡 岡
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 岡 鋼
Old
Chinese		 /*klaːŋ/ /*klaːŋs/

Noun

鋼

  1. steel

Compounds

See also

  • 鐵／铁 (tiě, “iron”)

Pronunciation 2

Verb

鋼

  1. to sharpen, to whet

Japanese

Kanji

鋼

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

鋼 ‎(hiragana はがね, romaji hagane)

  1. steel
    鋼 (はがね)のように硬 (かた)い。
    Hagane no yō ni katai.
    Hard as steel.

Synonyms

Korean

Hanja

鋼 • ‎(gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鋼 (cương, gang, cang)

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