Memory phrase for the character: 剛

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strength, hard, manly, brave

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Left: hill 岡 (cf. steel 鋼 [= the metal 金, that is produced in a hill-like 岡 oven/furnance for smelting ore], right: knife 刂

This hill (= furnace) makes the knifes: strong and hard.

岡	Hill	Sometimes used for trawl, namely a net 罒 on two trawl ropes 冂 in which fish is caught "mountain-like" 山, such as in rope 綱.
刂	cut	Variation of sword 刀

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