纲
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head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 糸 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 綱
- Common rank
- #1,567
- Unicode
- U+7EB2
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
guidelines · Heisig RSH #2541
thread + 冈 ridge of a hill
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 纲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上纲上线 | to make a mountain out of a molehill | |
| 教学大纲 | course syllabus; class curriculum | |
| 倒反天纲 | to violate the natural order; to defy social norms | |
| 本草纲目 | Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1] | |
| 行动纲领 | action plan; program of action | |
| 三纲五常 | three principles and five virtues (idiom); the three rules (ruler guides subject, father g… | |
| 中苏解决悬案大纲协定 | the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord… | |
| 木兰纲 | Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves) | |
| 头足纲 | Cephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid | |
| 接合菌纲 | Zygomycetes | |
| 共同纲领 | common program; formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim n… | |
| 纲举目张 | if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom); take care of the big things and t… | |
| 埃尔朗根纲领 | Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory | |
| 大纲 | synopsis; outline; program; leading principles | |
| 亚纲 | subclass (taxonomy) | |
| 腹足纲 | gastropod (class of mollusks including snails) | |
| 真菌纲 | Eumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi) | |
| 圆口纲脊椎动物 | cyclostome (marine biology) | |
| 软甲纲 | Malacostraca, a large class of crustaceans | |
| 量纲 | dimension (unit) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 冈 — compare how they read.