崗 (gong1 | gang3 gang1) : sentry; ridge

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崗

gong1

gang3 gang1

(jyutping) gong1, (pinyin) gang3
[1] sentry; post; position; station; sentinel
[2] welt; wale; ridge (on cheek)

(jyutping) gong1, (pinyin) gang1
variant of 岡

Stroke count: 11

Level: 3

Radical: 山 (#46)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

崗 / 岗

This word has been viewed 5417 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 25th Oct 2010 11:44

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山崗 saan1 gong1 shan1 gang3 = a mound; a small hill

站崗 zaam6 gong1 zhan4 gang3 = to stand guard; to set up a sentry

崗位 gong1 wai6*2 gang3 wei4 = a job; a post; a posting; job position

亂葬崗 lyun6 zong3 gong1 luan4 zang4 gang3 = unmarked common graves; unmarked burial mounds

下崗 haa6 gong1 xia4 gang3 = laid-off; come off sentry duty, come off guard

愛崗敬業 oi3 gong1 ging3 jip6 ai4 gang3 jing4 ye4 = industrious and hard-working

亂葬崗子 lyun6 zong3 gong1 zi2 luan4 zang4 gang3 zi5 = unmarked common graves; unmarked burial mounds 國

警崗 ging2 gong1 = police post 粵

福崗 fuk1 gong1 = Fukuoka

崗巴 gong1 baa1 gang3 ba1 = Gangba (place in Tibet)
See all 15 compounds (CantoDict reports 18 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 崗

呢度有一間警崗粵
There's a police box here.

我見到呢度有一間唔係好大嘅警崗粵
I can see a police box that's not very big here.
[Lit. I see-arrive here have one [counter] is-not very big [possessive particle] police box. You CANNOT say 唔大 or 唔好大 instead of 唔係好大, although it may sound like either one if a speaker is talking very quickly. 唔大 should be 細.]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 崗
Unicode code for this character: U+5d17 (off-site link)

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