剛

See also 刚

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 岡 + semantic 刀 (“knife”)

Han character

剛 (radical 18 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月山中弓 (BULN), four-corner 7220₀, composition ⿰岡刂)

1. hard, tough, rigid, strong

References

• KangXi: page 141, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2042
• Dae Jaweon: page 320, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 344, character 10
• Unihan data for U+525B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

剛 (simplified 刚, Yale gong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

剛 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ごう (gō)
• Kun: つよい (tsuyoi), こわい (kowai)

Proper noun

剛 (hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)

1. A male given name

剛 (hiragana つよし, romaji Tsuyoshi)

1. A male given name

剛 (hiragana ごう, romaji Gō)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

剛 (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

剛 (simplified 刚, pinyin gāng (gang1), Wade-Giles kang¹)

Adjective

剛 (traditional, Pinyin gāng, simplified 刚)

1. firm; strong; hard

Adverb

剛 (traditional, Pinyin gāng, simplified 刚)

1. just; exactly
2. only a short while ago
3. only at this moment

Compounds

剛愎 剛愎自用 剛才 剛度 剛剛 剛果 剛果紅 剛好 剛架 剛健̧

剛勁 剛烈 剛毛 剛氣 剛強 剛巧 剛韌 剛柔相濟 剛砂 剛石

剛體 剛性 剛一 剛毅 剛硬 剛勇 剛玉 剛正 剛直

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Vietnamese

Han character

剛 (cương, cang)