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Mythic Mandarin

强 (qiáng): meaning and stroke order

强 (qiáng) means strong, powerful, better, slightly more than, vigorous, violent.

强

Simplified
强
Traditional
強, 彊
Pinyin
qiáng · jiàng · qiǎng

Stroke order of 强

强

  • Qiáng surname Qiang
  • jiàng stubborn; unyielding
  • qiáng strong; powerful
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 強

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 强

  1. qiáng Traditional 強
    • strong
    • powerful
    • better
    • slightly more than
    • vigorous
    • violent
    • best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]
  2. Qiáng Traditional 強
    • surname Qiang
  3. qiáng Traditional 彊
    • variant of 強|强[qiang2]
  4. jiàng Traditional 強
    • stubborn
    • unyielding
  5. qiǎng Traditional 強
    • to force
    • to compel
    • to strive
    • to make an effort
  6. jiàng Traditional 彊
    • variant of 強|强[jiang4]
  7. qiǎng Traditional 彊
    • variant of 強|强[qiang3]

Radical and structure

强
Radical 弓 (Kangxi radical 57) · 12 strokes · 弓 on the left, 虽 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 强

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).