Meaning & readings
steel
On’yomi コウ
Kun’yomi はがね
Origin
The character 鋼 combines the metal radical 金 on the left, which marks this as a word about metals, with the component 岡 on the right, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation コウ. The left side tells you this is about a metallic material, while the right side gives you a rough guide to how the word sounds. Together, they create a character that refers to steel, one of the most important metal alloys used in tools and construction.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 16
- Kangxi radical
- 167
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1246 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+092FC