Memory phrase for the Kanji: 剛

剛

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Meaning strength, hard, manly, brave

Pronunciation

GŌ

Explanation

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

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

Radicals

岡 HillSometimes 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 cutVariation of sword 刀
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