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杠

Traditional: 槓

gāng

gāng · gong3 (Jyutping)

  1. flagpole
  2. footbridge

gàng

  1. variant of 槓|杠[gang4]
  2. (old) coffin-bearing pole
  3. thick pole; bar; rod
  4. bold line; thick stroke
  5. to mark with a thick line
  6. to sharpen (a knife, razor etc)
  7. (slang) to argue; to be deliberately argumentative
  8. standard; criterion
  9. hyphen; dash

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

杠

Meaning
lever, pole, crowbar; sharpen
Radical
木
Strokes
7
Components
⿰木工
Cangjie
DM
Four-corner
4191.0

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