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纲

gāng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 綱

What 纲 means

1. head rope of a fishing net
2. guiding principle
3. key link
4. class (taxonomy)
5. outline
6. program

Example sentences

• 界门纲目科属种。
  King Phillip came over for good soup.

Words starting with 纲

• 纲领gāng lǐngprogram (i.e. plan of action); guiding principle
• 纲要gāng yàooutline; essential points
• 纲纪gāng jìlaw and order
• 纲举目张gāng jǔ mù zhāngif you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom)…

Words containing 纲

• 提纲tí gāngoutline; synopsis; notes
• 大纲dà gāngsynopsis; outline; program
• 担纲dān gāngto play the leading role
• 亚纲yà gāngsubclass (taxonomy)
• 政纲zhèng gāngpolitical program; platform
• 朝纲cháo gānglaws and discipline of imperial court
• 考纲kǎo gāngexam outline…
• 超纲chāo gāngbeyond the scope of the syllabus
• 量纲liàng gāngdimension (unit)
• 党纲dǎng gāng(political) party platform; party program
• 木兰纲mù lán gāngMagnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves)
• 头足纲tóu zú gāngCephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid
• 上纲上线shàng gāng shàng xiànto make a mountain out of a molehill
• 共同纲领gòng tóng gāng lǐngcommon program; formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim…
• 教学大纲jiào xué dà gāngcourse syllabus; class curriculum
• 本草纲目Běn cǎo Gāng mùCompendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李时珍
• 行动纲领xíng dòng gāng lǐngaction plan; program of action
• 倒反天纲dào fǎn tiān gāngto violate the natural order; to defy social norms
• 埃尔朗根纲领Āi ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐngFelix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
• 软甲纲ruǎn jiǎ gāngMalacostraca, a large class of crustaceans
• 倍足纲bèi zú gāngDiplopoda (zoology)
• 吸虫纲xī chóng gāngClass Trematoda; fluke; trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
• 横纲héng gāngyokozuna
• 真菌纲zhēn jūn gāngEumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)

Characters built on 冈

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

• 刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 钢gāngsteel
• 岗gǎng(bound form) hillock; mound; sentry post; policeman's beat; (bound form) job; post

Characters that look like 纲

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

• 织zhīto weave; to knit
• 纳nàto receive; to accept; to enjoy
• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 陋lòulow; humble; plain
• 驹jūcolt
• 诩xǔto brag; popular; lovely

Sounds the same

Read gāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 刚(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 钢steel
• 扛to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
• 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