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舡

gāng

Character

What 舡 means

1. boat
2. ship

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
• 扛gāngto raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together

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
• 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
• 釭hanging bowl for lamp or fish
• 堽mound