冈 (岡)
gāng
Pinyin

Definition

冈 (岡)
 - 
gāng
  1. ridge
  2. mound

Character Decomposition

Compounds (3)

纲
gāng
  1. 1 head rope of a fishing net
  2. 2 guiding principle
  3. 3 key link
  4. 4 class (taxonomy)
  5. 5 outline
  6. 6 program
钢
gāng
  1. 1 steel
罁
gāng
  1. 1 old variant of 缸[gāng]

Related Words (20)

井冈山
Jǐng gāng Shān
  1. 1 Jinggang Mountains, in the Jiangxi-Hunan border region
佛冈
Fó gāng
  1. 1 Fogang county in Qingyuan 清远, Guangdong
梵蒂冈
Fàn dì gāng
  1. 1 Vatican City
梵蒂冈城
Fàn dì gāng chéng
  1. 1 Vatican City, capital of Holy See
黄冈
Huáng gāng
  1. 1 Huanggang prefecture-level city in Hubei

Sample Sentences

哪里！我家小店虽然其貌不扬，但这酒可是鼎鼎有名啊！但凡是喝了三碗的人，没有不醉的，因而也过不了前面的山冈。所以小店得名：“三碗不过冈”。
nǎli ！wǒ jiā xiǎodiàn suīrán qímàobùyáng ，dàn zhè jiǔ kěshì dǐngdǐngyǒumíng a ！dànfán shì hē le sān wǎn de rén ，méiyǒu bù zuì de ，yīnér yě guòbuliǎo qiánmian de shāngāng 。suǒyǐ xiǎodiàn démíng ：“sān wǎn bù guò gāng ”。
Not at all! Although my little place doesn't look like much, this wine is extremely well known! But there's no one who's not drunk after three bowls. Because of that, they can't get past the mountain ridge up ahead. So my little inn is called ``After Three Bowls, You Can't Cross the Ridge!"
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