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缸

gāng

Character Measure word 口

What 缸 means

1. jar
2. vat
3. classifier for loads of laundry

Example sentences

• 我没有浴缸。
  I don't have a bathtub.
• 他们指着浴缸。
  They pointed to the bathtub.
• 往浴缸里放热水。
  Wǎng yùgāng lǐ fàng rèshuǐ.
  Run hot water into the bath.
• 我们清理了浴缸。
  We cleaned the bath.
• 浴缸已经准备好了。
  Yùgāng yǐjīng zhǔnbèihǎole.
  The bath is ready.
• 我需要一个烟灰缸。
  Wǒ xūyào yī gè yānhuīgāng.
  I need an ashtray.

Words containing 缸

• 浴缸yù gāngbathtub
• 烟灰缸yān huī gāngashtray
• 鱼缸yú gāngfish tank; fishbowl; aquarium
• 水缸shuǐ gāngwater jar
• 茶缸chá gāngmug
• 气缸qì gāngcylinder (engine)
• 汽缸qì gāngcylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine)
• 烟缸yān gāngashtray
• 酒缸jiǔ gāngwine jar; (dialect) drinking house
• 顶缸dǐng gāngto take the blame; to be a scapegoat; to carry the can
• 大染缸dà rǎn gāngbig dyeing vat; (fig.) corrupting environment
• 茶缸子chá gāng zimug; tea mug
• 养鱼缸yǎng yú gāngaquarium; fish tank
• 按摩浴缸àn mó yù gāngjacuzzi; whirlpool tub

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.

• 肛gāngused in 脱肛
• 杠gàngcoffin-bearing pole (old); thick pole; bar; rod; thick line
• 扛gāngto raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
• 舡gāngboat; ship

Characters that look like 缸

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

• 知zhīto know; to be aware
• 恤xùanxiety; sympathy; to sympathize
• 虹hóngrainbow
• 枉wǎngto twist; crooked; unjust
• 枷jiācangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
• 衄nǜto bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc); fig. to be defeated

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
• 冈ridge; mound
• 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