Memory phrase for the character: 鋼

鋼

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Meaning

steel

Pronunciation

KŌ
hagane

Explanation

Left: metal 金, right: hill 岡 (Here as a bloomery hearth for steel smelting, in which iron ore and charcoal were stacked alternately as a hill.) Or: Steel is [compared to cast iron] elastic like a rope: 綱

Mnemonic

Metal from this hill (=oven) is steel.

Radicals

金	gold, metal	This radical is always on the left side of a character.
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.
冂	encover

Vocabulary

錬鋼	れんこう	forged steel
鉄鋼	てっこう	iron and steel
クロム鋼	クロムこう	chrome steel
Ｈ形鋼	エイチがたこう	H-section steel

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