kánggāng

carry on shoulders

Labor  done by hand  also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

工 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

gōng

  

work

Evolution

扛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

káng

carry on shoulders; lift; to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)

 

gāng

to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together

() 

gāng

old variant of [gāng]