HSK 6 · Science

杠杆 gànggǎn “lever” in Chinese

Traditional 槓桿

What 杠杆 means

  1. lever
  2. leverage
  3. pry bar
  4. crowbar
  5. financial leverage

How to say 杠杆

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale杠gàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale杆gǎn3rd tone, dipping

杠杆 in a sentence

  1. 用杠杆可以轻松地抬起重物。

    Yòng gànggǎn kěyǐ qīngsōng de táiqǐ zhòngwù.

    With a lever, you can lift heavy things easily.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 他买房子用了很高的杠杆。

    Tā mǎi fángzi yòng le hěn gāo de gànggǎn.

    He used a lot of leverage to buy his house.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 杠杆 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 杠 (gàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
杠gàngcoffin-bearing pole
  • 木tree · mù
  • 工work · gōng
The character 杆 (gǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
杆gǎnstick
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 干dry · gānSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 干 (gān) hints at the sound. Compare it with gǎn.

How to write 杠杆

杠 7 strokes · 杆 7 strokes

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杠杆 (gànggǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 杠杆 (gànggǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

杠杆 (gànggǎn) means “lever” or “leverage”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gànggǎn: gàng with a 4th tone, then gǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 杠杆 is written 槓桿. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganggan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 杠杆 from the suggestions. Typing ganggan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
杠杆 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.