钢
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steel
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 金 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鋼
- Common rank
- #982
- Unicode
- U+94A2
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
steel · Heisig RSH #2539
metal + 冈 ridge of a hill
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 钢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢城区 | Gangcheng, a district of Jinan City 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 钢铁工业 | steel industry | |
| 武汉钢铁公司 | Wuhan Iron and Steel | |
| 工字钢 | I-beam | |
| 钢铁学院 | 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 | one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom); an empty sack cannot stand uprigh… | |
| 宝武钢铁 | Baowu, the world's largest steel maker, resulting from the merger of Baosteel 寶鋼集團|宝钢集团[Ba… | |
| 白钢 | steel | |
| 钢花 | spray (or sparks) of molten steel | |
| 钢骨水泥 | reinforced concrete | |
| 恨铁不成钢 | lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom); fig. frustrated with sb who … | |
| 钢城 | see 鋼城區|钢城区[Gang1 cheng2 Qu1] | |
| 钢丝球 | stainless steel scourer | |
| 钢铁直男 | (slang) an extremely "straight" man: direct, literal-minded, practical and unromantic, and… | |
| 威而钢 | Viagra (male impotence drug) (Tw) | |
| 钢管 | steel pipe; pole (in pole dancing) | |
| 舞钢市 | Wugang, a county-level city in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市[Ping2 ding3 shan1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 钢制 | made of steel; steel (bar, screw, product etc) | |
| 角钢 | angle iron | |
| 小钢珠 | pachinko |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 冈 — compare how they read.