Chinese Character 剛 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

剛 meaning[3] in English

Hard.

Firm.

Strong.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are ridge (岡) , and 'knife' radical in … (刂)

Its radical[1] is: (dao1) which means: Surname Dao, .dao1surname Dao

In cangjie it is written with BULN

How to write 剛

To writegang1hard you should write a combination of gang1ridge , dao1'knife' radical … arranged in a shape:

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剛 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 剛 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:gang1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Hard . Firm . Strong . Just . Barely . Exactly

Pinyin:gang1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Ridge . Mound

Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]

Pinyin:ni4 Shape:

Pinyin:cao3 Shape:

Pinyin:che4
Meaning[3]: Plants Sprouting

Pinyin:dao1
Meaning[3]: 'Knife' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 18) . See Also 立刀旁[Li4 Dao1 Pang2] . See Also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[Ce4 Dao1 Pang2]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 剛in English or Chinese