亢
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high; overbearing; excessive
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 亠 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 亢
- Common rank
- #3,118
- Unicode
- U+4EA2
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Formation & memory
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How 亢 is formed
Words with 亢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甲状腺功能亢进 | hyperthyroidism | |
| 不亢不卑 | neither haughty nor humble; neither overbearing nor servile; neither supercilious nor obse… | |
| 不卑不亢 | neither servile nor overbearing (idiom); neither obsequious nor supercilious | |
| 高亢 | high-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc); high-spirited; fever-pitched… | |
| 亢进 | hyperfunction (medical) | |
| 亢直 | upright and unyielding (literary) | |
| 甲亢 | hyperthyroidism (abbr. for 甲狀腺功能亢進|甲状腺功能亢进[jia3 zhuang4 xian4 gong1 neng2 kang4 jin4]) | |
| 亢奋 | excited; stimulated | |
| 亢旱 | severe drought (literary) |
Sound family
These characters use 亢 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亢 sound part | high, proud; violent, excessive; skilled; surname | |
| 航 | vessel, craft; to sail, to navigate | |
| 坑 | pit, hole; to trap, to bury; to harry | |
| 杭 | ford; surname | |
| 吭 | throat | |
| 炕 | the brick-bed in northern China | |
| 伉 | husband, wife; pair; compare, match | |
| 沆 | ferry; fog; to go with the flow | |
| 闶 | door | |
| 肮 | dirty, filthy | |
| 钪 | scandium | |
| 颃 | to dive, to fly downward |