剛 — Chinese character
剛
gāng
hard, strong, tough; just, barely
- Pinyin
- gāng
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 岡 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 岡
- Simplified
- 刚
- Japanese
- 剛 as a kanji
剛 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 5 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 36
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 78
- Analects 5.10
- Analects 13.27
- Analects 16.7
- Analects 17.8
- Art of War 11.33
- Mencius 2A.2
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