Hanja Analyzer
扛

扛 — gang

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
마주 들 강
Romanization
gang
English
carry on shoulders; lift
Mandarin
káng
Japanese on'yomi
コウ
Japanese kun'yomi
あ.げる
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
6
Radical
手 (64, 3 residual)
Phonetic component
工
Unicode
U+625B

Parts that make up 扛

  • 扌 손 수variant of 手 다섯 손가락을 편 손손으로 하는 동작
  • 工 장인 공sound 땅을 다지는 연장 또는 곱자만들고 다듬는 일. 소리로도 자주 쓴다

How 扛 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 扛 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 工.

Characters sharing the phonetic 工

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “강”

Other hanja with radical 手

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