Chinese symbol for “lever”
杠杆
gàng gǎn
Traditional: 槓桿
lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lever is 杠杆 (gàng gǎn), defined as: lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lever”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杆 (桿) | gǎn | stick; pole |
| 扳手 | bān shǒu | spanner; wrench |
| 重臂 | zhòng bì | actuator (arm of a lever); lever |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杠杆.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 单杠 (單槓) | dān gàng | bar; bold line |
| 双杠 (雙槓) | shuāng gàng | parallel bars (gymnastics event) |
| 抬杠 (抬槓) | tái gàng | to bicker; to argue for the sake of arguing |
| 保险杠 (保險槓) | bǎo xiǎn gàng | car bumper |
| 杠铃 (槓鈴) | gàng líng | barbell |
| 栏杆 (欄杆) | lán gān | railing; banister |
| 杆菌 (桿菌) | gǎn jūn | bacillus (any rod-shaped bacteria) |
| 铁杆 (鐵桿) | tiě gān | iron (golf club) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lever”.
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.