gǎng

post

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

岡 sound component

  Sound component

gāng

  

ridge or crest of hill

Definitions

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gǎng

post; position; mound; policeman's beat

Most common words with 崗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

岗位

a post

mound

下岗

laid-off

上岗

to take up one's post

站岗

to stand guard

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0067% of movies

2255th most common character in movies

1795th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+5D17


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