岗 — Chinese character
岗
gǎng
post; position
- Pinyin
- gǎng
- Radical
- 46 ⼭ (Mountain)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 山 冈
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mountain; meaning component 山; sound component 冈
- Traditional
- 崗
Common words with 岗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 岗位 (崗位) | gǎng wèi | a post; a job |
| 下岗 (下崗) | xià gǎng | (of a guard, sentry etc) to come off duty; (of a worker) be to laid off |
| 上岗 (上崗) | shàng gǎng | to take up one's post; to go on duty; to take up a job |
| 花岗岩 (花崗岩) | huā gāng yán | granite |
| 站岗 (站崗) | zhàn gǎng | to stand guard; to serve on sentry duty |
| 花岗石 (花崗石) | huā gāng shí | granite |
| 岗哨 (崗哨) | gǎng shào | lookout post; sentry post; sentry |
| 岗亭 (崗亭) | gǎng tíng | sentry box; police box |
| 换岗 (換崗) | huàn gǎng | to relieve a sentry; to change the guard |
| 轮岗 (輪崗) | lún gǎng | to rotate jobs within an organization |
| 乱葬岗 (亂葬崗) | luàn zàng gǎng | unmarked burial mound; untended graveyard; mass grave |
| 爱岗敬业 (愛崗敬業) | ài gǎng jìng yè | devoted to one's work |
English words written with 岗
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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