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冈

gāng

Character Traditional 岡

What 冈 means

1. ridge
2. mound

Example sentences

• 我来自静冈。
  I am from Shizuoka.
• 我十年前参观了福冈。
  Wǒ shí nián qián cānguān le Fúgāng.
  I visited Fukuoka ten years ago.
• 这里的周围都是山冈。
  Zhèlǐ de zhōuwéi dōu shì shāngāng.
  This place is surrounded by hills.
• 我十年前叁观了福冈。
  I visited Fukuoka ten years ago.
• 她不论党派把票投给了西冈先生。
  Tā bù lùn dǎngpài bǎ piào tóu gěi le Xīgāng xiānsheng.
  She voted for Mr Nishioka irrespective of party lines.
• 我从来没到过比冈山更远的地方。
  I've never been beyond Okayama.

Words starting with 冈

• 冈山Gāng shānOkayama (prefecture in Japan)
• 冈本Gāng běnOkamoto (Japanese surname and place name)
• 冈田Gāng tiánOkada (Japanese surname)
• 冈上肌gāng shàng jīsupraspinatus muscle
• 冈下肌gāng xià jīinfraspinatus muscle
• 冈山区Gāng shān QūGangshan District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 冈比亚Gāng bǐ yàGambia
• 冈仁波齐Gāng rén bō qíMt Gang Rinpoche in Tibet; also called Mount Kailash
• 冈底斯山Gāng dǐ sī shānMt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe
• 冈仁波齐峰Gāng rén bō qí FēngMount Gang Rinpoche or Mount Kailash (6,638 m) in Tibet
• 冈底斯山脉Gāng dǐ sī shān màiGangdisê mountain range in southwest Tibet

Words containing 冈

• 井冈山Jǐng gāng ShānJinggang Mountains, in the Jiangxi-Hunan border region
• 梵蒂冈Fàn dì gāngthe Vatican
• 福冈Fú gāngFukuoka (city in Japan, capital of Fukuoka prefecture); Fukuoka (prefecture in Japan)
• 山冈shān gāngmound; small hill
• 拉冈Lā gāngLacan (psychoanalyst)
• 维冈Wéi gāngWigan, town in England
• 茨冈cí gāng(loanword) tzigane; gypsy
• 静冈Jìng gāngShizuoka (prefecture in Japan)
• 佛冈县Fó gāng XiànFogang, a county in Qingyuan City 清远市
• 俄勒冈É lè gāngOregon
• 武冈市Wǔ gāng ShìWugang, a county-level city in Shaoyang City 邵阳市
• 云冈区Yún gāng QūYungang, a district of Datong City 大同市
• 青冈县Qīng gāng XiànQinggang, a county in Suihua City 绥化市
• 黄冈市Huáng gāng ShìHuanggang, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省
• 井冈山市Jǐng gāng shān ShìJinggangshan, a county-level city in Ji'an City 吉安市
• 俄勒冈州É lè gāng zhōuOregon
• 凤冈县Fèng gāng XiànFenggang, a county in Zunyi City 遵义市
• 梵蒂冈城Fàn dì gāng chéngVatican City, capital of Holy See
• 云冈石窟Yún gāng Shí kūYungang Caves at Datong 大同, Shanxi 山西
• 佛冈Fó gāngsee 佛冈县
• 武冈Wǔ gāngsee 武冈市
• 云冈Yún gāngsee 云冈区
• 青冈Qīng gāngsee 青冈县
• 黄冈Huáng gāngsee 黄冈市

Characters that look like 冈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…
• 历lìcalendar
• 闪shǎnto dodge; to duck out of the way; to beat it
• 囚qiúprisoner
• 凤fèngphoenix
• 丙bǐngthird of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; third in order…

Sounds the same

Read gāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 刚(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 钢steel
• 纲head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link
• 扛to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
• 缸jar; vat; classifier for loads of laundry
• 罡stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper
• 肛used in 脱肛
• 杠flagpole; footbridge
• 堈earthen jug, crock, cistern
• 舡boat; ship
• 釭hanging bowl for lamp or fish
• 堽mound