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Chinese symbol for “stiffness”

刚度
gāng dù
Traditional: 剛度
stiffness

The closest CC-CEDICT match for stiffness is 刚度 (gāng dù), defined as: stiffness.

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Characters and stroke order

刚 gāng
hard, strong, tough; just, barely
radical 18 ⼑ · 6 strokes
度 dù
degree, system; manner; to consider
radical 53 ⼴ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 刚度.

WordPinyinMeaning
刚刚 (剛剛)gāng gangjust recently; just a moment ago
刚才 (剛才)gāng cáijust now; a moment ago
刚好 (剛好)gāng hǎojust; exactly
金刚 (金剛)jīn gāngdiamond; (used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon)
刚性 (剛性)gāng xìngrigidity
制度zhì dùsystem (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution
程度chéng dùdegree; level; extent
态度 (態度)tài dumanner; bearing

See also: Japanese symbol for “stiffness”.

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.