綱

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“‘rope’”) + phonetic 岡

[edit] Han character

綱 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月廿山 (VFBTU), four-corner 2792₀)

1. heavy rope, hawser
2. main points
3. (biological classification) class

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 927, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27576
• Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3414, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7DB1

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

綱 (simplified 纲, Yale gong1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

綱 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: つな (tsuna)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

綱 (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

綱 (simplified 纲, pinyin gāng (gang1), Wade-Giles kang¹)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

綱 (cương, cáng)