强
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strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 弓 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 強
- Common rank
- #373
- Unicode
- U+5F3A
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Formation & memory
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Words with 强
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 强中自有强中手 | (saying) however strong you are, there is always someone stronger | |
| 强有力 | strong; forceful | |
| 自强运动 | Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动 | |
| 光头强 | Logger Vick (Boonie Bears character); nickname for bald people | |
| 强作用力 | the strong force (in nuclear physics) | |
| 自强自立 | to strive for self-improvement | |
| 自立自强 | to be self-reliant | |
| 黄克强 | pseudonym of Huang Xing 黃興|黄兴[Huang2 Xing1], one of the heroes of the 1911 Xinhai Revoluti… | |
| 外强中干 | strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom) | |
| 发光强度 | luminous intensity | |
| 电流强度 | current intensity | |
| 强大 | big and strong; formidable; powerful | |
| 强子 | hadron (particle physics) | |
| 强人 | (politics) strongman; (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person; (old) r… | |
| 联合自强 | to combine together for self-improvement; joint movement for self-strengthening | |
| 女强人 | successful career woman; able woman | |
| 强国 | (ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage) | |
| 强国 | powerful country; great power | |
| 强生 | (surname) Johnson; Johnson & Johnson (company) | |
| 小强 | (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that h… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 虫 — compare how they read.