Chinese symbol for “girder”
钢梁
gāng liáng
Traditional: 鋼梁
steel beam; girder
The closest CC-CEDICT match for girder is 钢梁 (gāng liáng), defined as: steel beam; girder.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 钢梁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢铁 (鋼鐵) | gāng tiě | steel |
| 钢琴 (鋼琴) | gāng qín | piano; measure word: 架 (jià), 台 (tái) |
| 钢材 (鋼材) | gāng cái | steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc |
| 钢筋 (鋼筋) | gāng jīn | steel reinforcing bar |
| 不锈钢 (不銹鋼) | bù xiù gāng | stainless steel |
| 桥梁 (橋梁) | qiáo liáng | bridge (lit. and fig.) |
| 脊梁 | jǐ liáng | backbone; spine |
| 横梁 (橫梁) | héng liáng | beam |
See also: Japanese symbol for “girder”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.