扛 (gāng): to raise aloft with both hands, (of two or more people) to carry sth together, to carry on one's shoulder
扛 (gāng) is a Chinese character meaning “to raise aloft with both hands.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (structural) and 工 (structural). It ranks #2739 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 扛 labor 工 done by hand 扌; 工 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to raise aloft with both hands
- (of two or more people) to carry sth together
- to carry on one's shoulder
Etymology & Origin
ideographicLabor 工 done by hand 扌; 工 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰扌工 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
扛 appears in 2 compound words: 50 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 0 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 扛 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
他扛了一个电话，约朋友晚上一起吃饭。
tā gāng le yī gě diàn huà , yāo péng yǒu wǎn shǎng yī qǐ chī fàn .
He picked up the phone and called a friend to arrange dinner together that evening.
35岁男子胸痛扛了几天不幸离世?别再把“胸痛”当疲劳!
3 5 suì nán zǐ xiōng tòng gāng le jī tiān bù xìng lí shì ? bié zài bǎ xiōng tòng dāng pí láo !
A 35-year-old man died of chest pain for several days? Don't treat "chest pain" as fatigue!
被吃定“不敢走” 公费师常得扛行政
bèi chī dìng bù gǎn zǒu gōng fèi shī cháng dé gāng háng zhèng
Being eaten and "not daring to go" Publicly-funded teachers often have to carry the administration
MLB》郑宗哲热身赛首扛先发游击 全场2支0、敲163公里强劲击...
M L B zhèng zōng zhé rè shēn sài shǒu gāng xiān fā yóu jī quán chǎng 2 zhī 0 , qiāo 1 6 3 gōng lǐ qiáng jìn jī . . .
MLB" Zheng Zongzhe started the starting shortstop in the warm-up game, 2 hits 0 in the game, knocked 163 kilometers strong...
台美日联手 进击AI记忆体...力积电扛试产与制造重任
tái měi rì lián shǒu jìn jī A I jì yì tǐ . . . lì jī diàn gāng shì chǎn yǔ zhì zào chóng rèn
Taiwan, the United States and Japan join forces to attack AI memory... PSMC shoulders the heavy responsibility of trial production and manufacturing
百万YTR老高传遭拘罚18亿 扛布者:疑被中国政府“远洋捕捞”
bǎi wàn Y T R lǎo gāo chuán zāo jū fá 1 8 yì gāng bù zhě : yí bèi zhōng guó zhèng fǔ yuǎn yáng bǔ lāo
Millions of YTR Lao Gao was detained and fined 1.8 billion Cloth bearer: suspected of being "ocean-going fishing" by the Chinese government
我把盒子扛在肩上。
Wǒ bǎ hézi gāng zài jiān shàng.
I carried the box on my shoulder.
为了这次的损失，他扛起责任，辞职了。
Wèile zhè cì de sǔnshī, tā gāng qǐ zérèn, cízhí le.
He resigned from the job to take the responsibility for the loss.
他累坏了，需要有人扛着。
Tā lèihuài le, xūyào yǒurén gāng zhe.
He's exhausted and need to be carried.
Character Family
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