Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- gāng
English
- heavy rope, hawser
- head rope of a fishing net
- main points
- guiding principle
- key link
- class (taxonomy)
- outline
- program
- key part of a subject
- rules and regulations that maintain an order; discipline
粵語
- 事情嘅關鍵部分
- 維持秩序嘅行為規範
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 綱
- 擔綱daam1 gong1
to play the leading role
- 綱領gong1 ling5
program (i.e. plan of action)
- 大綱daai6 gong1
synopsis
- 綱要gong1 jiu3
outline
- 黨綱dong2 gong1
(political) party platform
- 考綱haau2 gong1
exam outline (outline of the content of an exam, published prior to the exam as a guide for examinees) (abbr. for 考試大綱|考试大纲[kao3 shi4 da4 gang1])
- 政綱zing3 gong1
political program
- 量綱loeng6 gong1
dimension (unit)
- 八綱baat3 gong1
(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction
- 超綱ciu1 gong1
beyond the scope of the syllabus
- 提綱tai4 gong1
outline
- 上綱上線soeng5 gong1 soeng5 sin3
to make a mountain out of a molehill
- 木蘭綱muk6 laan4 gong1
Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves)
- 亞綱aa3 gong1
subclass (taxonomy)
- 真菌綱zan1 kwan2 gong1
Eumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)
- 總綱zung2 gong1
superclass; general program; general principles
- 朝綱ciu4 gong1
laws and discipline of imperial court
- 綱紀gong1 gei2
law and order
- 橫綱waang4 gong1
yokozuna
- 共同綱領gung6 tung4 gong1 ling5
common program
- 教學大綱gaau3 hok6 daai6 gong1
course syllabus
- 倍足綱pui5 zuk1 gong1
Diplopoda (zoology)
- 吸蟲綱kap1 cung4 gong1
Class Trematoda
- 大綱領daai6 gong1 ling5