Memory phrase for the Kanji: 钢

钢



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Meaning

steel

Pronunciation

 gāng

Explanation

 Left: metal 钅/金, right: hill 冈 (=岡 Here as a bloomery hearth for steel smelting, in which iron ore and charcoal were stacked alternately as a hill).

Mnemonic
 
The metal from this hill (= oven) is steel.

Radicals

金 gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
冈 mound, ridge of a mountainWith two crosses 㐅 it is seen as a dragnet/trawl net 网.
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 Vocabulary

钢管 gāng guǎn  steel pipe
槽钢 cáo gāng  steel groove; V-shaped steel bar
钢琴 gāng qín  piano
钢筋 gāng jīn  steel reinforcing bar
炼钢 liàn gāng  steel making
钢丝 gāng sī  steel wire; tightrope
钢丝绳 gāng sī shéng  hawser; steel rope
钢材 gāng cái  steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc
钢板 gāng bǎn  steel plate
钢铁 gāng tiě  steel
不锈钢 bù xiù gāng  stainless steel
不锈钢 bù xiù gāng  

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