强

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See also: 強 and 彊
强 U+5F3A, 强
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F3A
← 弹
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 弻 →

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes
Japanese 強
Simplified 强
Traditional 強

Han character

强 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓口中戈 (NRLI), four-corner 16236, composition ⿰弓虽)

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9822
  • Dae Jaweon: page 676, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 999, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5F3A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Variant form of 強. Attested since Qin dynasty.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 强 – see 強 (“strong; powerful; energetic; to strengthen; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 強).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

强

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 強 (“strong; powerful; potent”)

Readings

References

Korean

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

强 (eumhun 강할 강 (ganghal gang))

  1. Alternative form of 強 (“Hanja form? of 강 (“strong”).”)

References

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Han character

强: Hán Việt readings: cường (渠(cừ)良(lương)切(thiết)), cưỡng (巨(cự)兩(lưỡng)切(thiết))
强: Nôm readings: gượng, càng, cường, cưỡng, ngượng

  1. Alternative form of 強 (“chữ Hán form of cường (“strong”).”)
  2. Nôm form of gượng (“strained; forced; unnatural”).

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Trần (2004).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonet (1899).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Nguyễn (2014).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
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