杠 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「木」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「木」
- On
- コウ
- Kun
- ちぎり・てこ
- Meaning
- a lever; a pole
Origin
Tree 木 with 工 as phonetic: a carrying pole, and a lever.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 杠てこ
a lever
- 杠秤ちぎりばかり
a beam balance
Example
杠秤で米の重さを量った。
They weighed the rice on a beam balance.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)