Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 鋼
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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
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金
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gold, metal | (This radical is always on the left side of a character.) |
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岡
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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.) |
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冂
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encover | |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 錬鋼 |
れんこう |
forged steel | | 鉄鋼 |
てっこう |
iron and steel |
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