梁 — Chinese character
梁
liáng
bridge; beam, rafter; surname
- Pinyin
- liáng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 刅 木
- Formation
- ideographic — A wooden 木 bridge built 刅 over a river 氵
- Japanese
- 梁 as a kanji
Common words with 梁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 桥梁 (橋梁) | qiáo liáng | bridge (lit. and fig.) |
| 脊梁 | jǐ liáng | backbone; spine |
| 脊梁 | jǐ liang | (coll.) back (of a human or other vertebrate) |
| 横梁 (橫梁) | héng liáng | beam |
| 鼻梁 | bí liáng | bridge of the nose |
| 栋梁 (棟梁) | dòng liáng | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams |
| 钢梁 (鋼梁) | gāng liáng | steel beam; girder |
| 顶梁柱 (頂梁柱) | dǐng liáng zhù | pillar; backbone |
| 桁梁 | héng liáng | brace girder |
| 逼上梁山 | bī shàng liáng shān | driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels; to drive to revolt |
| 房梁 | fáng liáng | roof beam |
| 跳梁小丑 | tiào liáng xiǎo chǒu | (idiom) clownish troublemaker; contemptible buffoon |
English words written with 梁
梁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 1 · Mencius 12 · Zhuangzi 20
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 42
- Analects 10.18
- Mencius 1A.1
- Mencius 1A.2
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 1A.4
- Mencius 1A.5
- Mencius 1A.6
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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