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扛

gāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

扛 (gāng) means "to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together; to carry on one's shoulder". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 扛 means

1. to raise aloft with both hands
2. (of two or more people) to carry sth together

Other readings

扛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• kángto carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)
• gāngold variant of {扛|gāng}

Example sentences

• 扛不动它。
  It won't budge one bit.
• 我扛着米袋。
  I carry a bag of rice.
• 我把盒子扛在肩上。
  Wǒ bǎ hézi gāng zài jiān shàng.
  I carried the box on my shoulder.
• 他累坏了，需要有人扛着。
  He's exhausted and need to be carried.
• 为了这次的损失，他扛起责任，辞职了。
  Wèile zhè cì de sǔnshī, tā gāng qǐ zérèn, cízhí le.
  He resigned from the job to take the responsibility for the loss.
• 让我们记住，是伊利诺伊州的一名男子首次将共和党的旗帜扛到了白宫。共和党是建立在自立、个人自由以及国家团结的价值观之上的。这也是我们所有人共同的价值观。虽然民主党今天晚上赢得了巨大的胜利，但我们是以谦卑的态度和弥合阻碍我们进步的分歧的决心赢得这场胜利的
  Ràng wǒmen jìzhu, shì Yīlìnuòyīzhōu de yī míng nánzǐ shǒucì jiāng Gònghédǎng de qízhì gāng dào le Báigōng. Gònghédǎng shì jiànlì zài zìlì, gèrén zìyóu yǐjí guójiā tuánjié de jiàzhíguān zhīshàng de. zhè yě shì wǒmen suǒyǒu rén gòngtóng de jiàzhíguān. suīrán Mínzhǔdǎng jīntiān wǎnshang yíngdé le jùdà de shènglì, dàn wǒmen shìyǐ qiānbēi de tàidu hé míhé zǔ'ài wǒmen jìnbù de fēnqí de juéxīn yíngdé zhè chǎng shènglì de
  Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

Words starting with 扛

• 扛把子káng bǎ zi(argot) gang leader; (fig.) king; the best; also pr. káng bà zi

Words containing 扛

• 肩扛jiān kángto carry on the shoulder

Characters built on 工

These share the phonetic component 工 (gōng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 缸gāngjar; vat; classifier for loads of laundry
• 肛gāngused in 脱肛
• 杠gàngcoffin-bearing pole (old); thick pole; bar; rod; thick line
• 舡gāngboat; ship

Characters that look like 扛

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

• 拟nǐdoubtful; suspicious; variant of 拟
• 初chū(bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early…
• 扭niǔto turn; to twist; to wring
• 扯chěto pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy
• 妞niūgirl
• 驭yùvariant of 御; to drive; to manage

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
• 冈ridge; mound
• 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

Where 扛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gāng–kě (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.