冈 (gāng): ridge, mound
冈 (gāng) is a Chinese character meaning “ridge.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 冂 (structural) and 乂 (structural). It ranks #2015 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically pictographic, 冈 simplified form of 岡, clouds 网 forming over a mountain 山. Its radical form 冂 (wide) appears in many related characters such as 再 (zài, again), 最 (zuì, (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree), 内 (nèi, inside).
Definitions
- ridge
- mound
Etymology & Origin
pictographicSimplified form of 岡, clouds 网 forming over a mountain 山
Decomposition: ⿵冂乂 (layout: surround-from-top)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 梵蒂冈 | fàn dì gāng | the Vatican |
| 俄勒冈州 | é lè gāng zhōu | Oregon |
| 俄勒冈 | é lè gāng | Oregon |
| 福冈 | fú gāng | Fukuoka, capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan |
| 静冈县 | jìng gāng xiàn | Shizuoka prefecture southwest of Tokyo, Japan |
| 冈比亚 | gāng bǐ yà | Gambia |
| 冈山 | gāng shān | Kangshan town in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan |
| 山冈 | shān gāng | mound |
| 冈底斯山 | gāng dǐ sī shān | Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe |
| 冈山区 | gāng shān qū | Gangshan District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| 冈底斯山脉 | gāng dǐ sī shān mài | Gangdisê mountain range in southwest Tibet |
| 武冈市 | wǔ gāng shì | Wugang, a county-level city in Shaoyang City 邵陽市|邵阳市[Shao4 yang2 Shi4], Hunan |
| 黄冈市 | huáng gāng shì | Huanggang, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 井冈山市 | jǐng gāng shān shì | Jinggangshan, a county-level city in Ji'an City 吉安市[Ji2 an1 Shi4], Jiangxi |
| 冈本 | gāng běn | Okamoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
冈 appears in 38 compound words: 32 as the first character, 37 as the last, and 32 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 冈 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
这个冈字在古汉语中有不同的含义。
zhè gě gāng zì zài gǔ hàn yǔ zhōng yǒu bù tóng de hán yì .
The character "冈" had different meanings in ancient Chinese.
...山火烧逾30小时!烈焰距民宅200m 静冈山崩79人受困
. . . shān huǒ shāo yú 3 0 xiǎo shí ! liè yàn jù mín zhái 2 0 0 m jìng gāng shān bēng 7 9 rén shòu kùn
...Wildfire rages for over 30 hours! Flames just 200 meters from homes; 79 people trapped in Shizuoka landslide
日本静冈大规模山崩!70米高土石吞没县道 80人...
rì běn jìng gāng dà guī mó shān bēng ! 7 0 mǐ gāo tǔ shí tūn méi xiàn dào 8 0 rén . . .
Massive landslide in Shizuoka, Japan! A 70-meter-high avalanche of earth and rock buries a prefectural road; 80 people...
行人闯富冈-杨梅间轨道 遭自强号撞上命危送医
háng rén chuǎng fù gāng yáng méi jiān guǐ dào zāo zì qiáng hào zhuàng shàng mìng wēi sòng yī
Pedestrians broke into the Fugang-Yangmei track and were hit by the Ziqiang and sent to the hospital
圆梦!王贞治赠福冈软银鹰外套 赖清德兴奋喊:把我签下来?
yuán mèng ! wáng zhēn zhì zèng fú gāng ruǎn yín yīng wài tào lài qīng dé xīng fèn hǎn : bǎ wǒ qiān xià lái ?
Dream come true! Wang Zhenzhi gave Fukuoka SoftBank Eagle jacket Lai Qingde shouted excitedly: Sign me down?
王贞治赠福冈软银鹰外套 赖总统笑:是不是要把我签下来...
wáng zhēn zhì zèng fú gāng ruǎn yín yīng wài tào lài zǒng tǒng xiào : shì bù shì yāo bǎ wǒ qiān xià lái . . .
Wang Sadaharu gave Fukuoka SoftBank Eagle jacket President Lai laughed: Are you going to sign me off?
有一个人住在福冈，其他人住在新泻。
Yǒu yī gè rén zhù zài Fúgāng, qítā rén zhù zài Xīnxiè.
One lives in Fukuoka, and the others live in Niigata.
我十年前参观了福冈。
Wǒ shí nián qián cānguān le Fúgāng.
I visited Fukuoka ten years ago.
她不论党派把票投给了西冈先生。
Tā bù lùn dǎngpài bǎ piào tóu gěi le Xīgāng xiānsheng.
She voted for Mr Nishioka irrespective of party lines.
这里的周围都是山冈。
Zhèlǐ de zhōuwéi dōu shì shāngāng.
This place is surrounded by hills.
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