彊

See also 强

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 強
• 强

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 畺

Bow is powerful.

Han character

彊 (radical 57 弓+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓一田一 (NMWM), four-corner 1121₆)

1. stubborn, uncompromising

Derived terms

• 疆

References

• KangXi: page 361, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9872
• Dae Jaweon: page 679, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1003, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5F4A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

彊 (Yale geung1, geung6 keung4 keung5)

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Japanese

Kanji

彊

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō), ごう (gō)
• Kun: つよい (tsuyoi), しいる (shiiru)

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Korean

Hanja

彊 (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

彊 (pinyin qiáng (qiang2), Wade-Giles ch'iang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

彊 (cường, cương)