Chinese Character 綱 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

綱 meaning[3] in English

Head Rope Of A Fishing Net.

Guiding Principle.

Key Link.

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (mi4) which means: Fine Silk, Kangxi Radical 120, .mi4fine silk

In cangjie it is written with VFBTU

How to write 綱

To writegang1head rope … you should write a combination of si1'silk' radical … , gang1ridge arranged in a shape:

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綱 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 綱 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]: Head Rope Of A Fishing Net . Guiding Principle . Key Link . Class (Taxonomy) . Outline . Program

Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: 'Silk' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 120), Occurring In 红, 绿, 累 Etc . Also Pr. [Mi4]

Pinyin:yao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Yao

Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

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

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 綱in English or Chinese