纲
head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,567 U+7EB2
How 纲 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
纟 (semantic, “thread”) + 冈 (phonetic, gāng)
How to remember it
guidelines · Heisig RSH #2541
thread + 冈 ridge of a hill
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 冈
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 冈 (gāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冈 sound component | gāng | ridge or crest of hill |
| 钢 | gāng | steel; hard, strong, tough |
| 刚 | gāng | hard, strong, tough; just, barely |
| 岗 | gǎng | post; position |
Words containing 纲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上纲上线 | shàng gāng shàng xiàn | to make a mountain out of a molehill |
| 教学大纲 | jiào xué dà gāng | course syllabus; class curriculum |
| 倒反天纲 | dào fǎn tiān gāng | to violate the natural order; to defy social norms |
| 本草纲目 | Běn cǎo Gāng mù | Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1] |
| 行动纲领 | xíng dòng gāng lǐng | action plan; program of action |
| 三纲五常 | sān gāng wǔ cháng | three principles and five virtues (idiom); the three rules (ruler guides subject, father g… |
| 中苏解决悬案大纲协定 | Zhōng Sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng | the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord… |
| 木兰纲 | mù lán gāng | Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves) |
| 头足纲 | tóu zú gāng | Cephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid |
| 接合菌纲 | jiē hé jūn gāng | Zygomycetes |
| 共同纲领 | gòng tóng gāng lǐng | common program; formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim n… |
| 纲举目张 | gāng jǔ mù zhāng | if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom); take care of the big things and t… |
| 埃尔朗根纲领 | Āi ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐng | Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory |
| 大纲 | dà gāng | synopsis; outline; program; leading principles |
| 亚纲 | yà gāng | subclass (taxonomy) |
| 腹足纲 | fù zú gāng | gastropod (class of mollusks including snails) |
| 真菌纲 | zhēn jūn gāng | Eumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi) |
| 圆口纲脊椎动物 | yuán kǒu gāng jǐ zhuī dòng wù | cyclostome (marine biology) |
| 软甲纲 | ruǎn jiǎ gāng | Malacostraca, a large class of crustaceans |
| 量纲 | liàng gāng | dimension (unit) |