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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.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

钢 gāng
steel; hard, strong, tough
radical 167 ⾦ · 9 strokes
梁 liáng
bridge; beam, rafter; surname
radical 75 ⽊ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 钢梁.

WordPinyinMeaning
钢铁 (鋼鐵)gāng tiěsteel
钢琴 (鋼琴)gāng qínpiano; measure word: 架 (jià), 台 (tái)
钢材 (鋼材)gāng cáisteel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc
钢筋 (鋼筋)gāng jīnsteel reinforcing bar
不锈钢 (不銹鋼)bù xiù gāngstainless steel
桥梁 (橋梁)qiáo liángbridge (lit. and fig.)
脊梁jǐ liángbackbone; spine
横梁 (橫梁)héng liángbeam

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.

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