Chinese symbol for “pitchfork”
钢叉
gāng chā
Traditional: 鋼叉
pitchfork; garden fork; restraining pole (used by police); military fork (of ancient times)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pitchfork is 钢叉 (gāng chā), defined as: pitchfork; garden fork; restraining pole (used by police); military fork (of ancient times).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pitchfork”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 钢叉.
| 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 |
| 交叉 | jiāo chā | to cross; to intersect |
| 分叉 | fēn chà | to branch; to fork; fork; branch; bifurcation |
| 交叉口 | jiāo chā kǒu | (road) intersection |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pitchfork”.
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.