Chinese symbol for “tightrope”
钢丝
gāng sī
Traditional: 鋼絲
steel wire; tightrope
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tightrope is 钢丝 (gāng sī), defined as: steel wire; tightrope.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 钢丝.
| 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 |
| 粉丝 (粉絲) | fěn sī | bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles; fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans") |
| 丝毫 (絲毫) | sī háo | the slightest amount or degree; a bit |
| 丝袜 (絲襪) | sī wà | stockings; pantyhose |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tightrope”.
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.