Dictionary › 杠
杠
gàng
What 杠 means
- coffin-bearing pole (old)
- thick pole; bar; rod
- thick line
- to mark with a thick line
- to sharpen (a knife, razor etc)
- to get into a dispute with
- standard; criterion
- hyphen; dash
Other readings
Example sentences
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汤姆被敲竹杠了。Tāngmǔ bèi qiāo zhúgàng le.Tom got ripped off.
Words starting with 杠
- 杠杆gàng gǎnlever; pry bar; crowbar
- 杠铃gàng língbarbell
- 杠子gàng zithick bar; solid carrying pole
- 杠精gàng jīng(slang) (neologism c. 2018) argumentative person
- 杠上gàng shàngto get into a dispute with
- 杠刀gàng dāoto sharpen a knife (or razor etc)
- 杠夫gàng fūpole carrier; coffin-bearer
- 杠掉gàng diàoto cross out
- 杠荡gàng dàngto shake; to rock
- 杠头gàng tóu(old) chief coffin bearer; (fig.) argumentative person…
- 杠龟gàng guī(Taiwan) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure…
- 杠杠的gáng gáng de(slang) (originally northeast dialect) excellent; great
- 杠杆收购gàng gǎn shōu gòuleveraged buyout (LBO)
Words containing 杠
- 抬杠tái gàngto bicker; to argue for the sake of arguing; to carry on poles (together with sb else)
- 保险杠bǎo xiǎn gàngcar bumper
- 单杠dān gàngbar; bold line; horizontal bar (gymnastics event)
- 吊杠diào gàngtrapeze (gymnastics)
- 斜杠xié gàngslash; forward slash (punctuation mark); (neologism, attested by 2016) (coll.)…
- 横杠héng gàngbar; horizontal bar
- 双杠shuāng gàngparallel bars (gymnastics event)
- 反斜杠fǎn xié gàngbackslash (computing)
- 敲竹杠qiāo zhú gàngextortion by taking advantage of sb's weakness
- 盘杠子pán gàng zito carry out gymnastic tricks on horizontal bar
- 高低杠gāo dī gànguneven bars (gymnastics)
- 斜杠青年xié gàng qīng niányoung person who pursues multiple careers simultaneously; a young slashie
- 资金杠杆zī jīn gàng gǎn(finance) leverage; gearing
- 金融杠杆jīn róng gàng gǎnfinancial leverage; leveraging (i.e. buying shares on borrowed funds)
- 非杠杆化fēi gàng gǎn huàdeleveraging (i.e. paying off part of a leverage loan)
- 撬杠qiào gàngcrowbar
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
- 扛gāngto raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
- 舡gāngboat; ship
Characters that look like 杠
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
- 权quánauthority; power; right
- 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary
- 杜dùbirchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent
- 杖zhànga staff; a rod; cane
- 枉wǎngto twist; crooked; unjust
Sounds the same
Read gàng, tone for tone, but written differently.
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