Keyword
pole
- bar
- lever
- crowbar
- Frequency
- #2433
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
gāng
Mnemonic
A wooden 木 lever 工; 工 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
杠杆
lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage
杠
(old) coffin-bearing pole; thick pole; bar; rod; bold line; thick stroke; to mark with a thick line; to sharpen (a knife, razor etc); (slang) to argue; to be deliberately argumentative; standard; criterion; hyphen; dash
单杠
bar; bold line; horizontal bar (gymnastics event)
双杠
parallel bars (gymnastics event)
抬杠
to bicker; to argue for the sake of arguing; to carry on poles (together with sb else); to carry a coffin on poles
保险杠
car bumper
杠铃
barbell
杠子
thick bar; solid carrying pole
杠上
to get into a dispute with
高低杠
uneven bars (gymnastics)
横杠
bar; horizontal bar
斜杠
slash; forward slash (punctuation mark); (neologism, attested by 2016) (coll.) (attributive) pursuing multiple career paths concurrently; having a portfolio career; (of a career, identity etc) multi-path; multi-hyphenate; slashie
敲竹杠
extortion by taking advantage of sb's weakness
杠龟
(Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
撬杠
crowbar