强 · qiáng
strong, powerful, energetic
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
strong, powerful, energetic
- Mandarin
- qiáng
- Cantonese
- koeng4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 强 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 강
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5F3A
- Radical
- 弓 · 57
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 强
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- qiáng
- kCantonese
- koeng4
- kDefinition
- strong, powerful, energetic
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 57.9
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5F37 U+5F3A
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5F3A
- kTGH
- 2013:2802
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- qiáng,qiǎng,jiàng 20999.150
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jiàng 0562.080 · qiáng 0917.140 · qiǎng 0919.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jiàng 168.020 · qiáng 298.090 · qiǎng 299.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- qiáng(975) qiǎng(88)