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鋼

Steel
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingコウ
Kun readingはがね

Meanings

  1. steelRtK
  1. sword steel
  2. sword

Synonyms

スチール鉄

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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metal (金) · gold (金) · mount

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2113

Compound words

彼は鋼を鍛えて刀を作った。
He forged the steel into a sword.tatoeba
鉄鋼生産は2年連続して最高を記録した。
Steel output set a record for two consecutive years.tatoeba
鉄鋼は基幹産業である。
Steel is a key industry.tatoeba
鉄鋼の特性の1つは硬いことだ。
One of the qualities of steel is hardness.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

構造は鋼製の単一アーチで橋脚は石積みである
こうぞうははがねせいのたんいつあーちできょうきゃくはいしつみであるThe structure is a single steel arch with stone-built piers.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Steel. Metal 金 + 岡 (solid hill) — metal hard as rock.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 鋼

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step