HSK 6 · Places

港湾 gǎngwān “harbour” in Chinese

Traditional 港灣

What 港湾 means

  1. harbour
  2. bay
  3. bay serving as a harbour

How to say 港湾

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale港gǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale湾wān1st tone, high and level

港湾 in a sentence

  1. 港湾里停着很多渔船。

    Gǎngwān lǐ tíng zhe hěn duō yúchuán.

    Lots of fishing boats are moored in the harbour.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这座城市有一个很美的港湾。

    Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu yí ge hěn měi de gǎngwān.

    This city has a beautiful harbour.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 港湾 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 港 (gǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
港gǎngharbour
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 巷alley · xiàngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 巷 (xiàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gǎng.

The character 湾 (wān) with each of its parts in a different colour
湾wānbay
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 弯bend · wānSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 弯 (wān) hints at the sound. Compare it with wān.

How to write 港湾

港 12 strokes · 湾 12 strokes

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

Words related to 港湾

Words with 港

港口gǎngkǒu · port

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FAQs

港湾 (gǎngwān) means “harbour” or “bay”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gǎngwān: gǎng with a 3rd tone, then wān with a 1st 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, 港湾 is written 港灣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gangwan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 港湾 from the suggestions. Typing gangwan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
港湾 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.