扛 káng to carry on one's shoulder

HSK 6 — the top of the six old levels: 2,500 new words, 5,000 in all. You read and discuss almost anything. In HSK 3.0, 扛 is in band 7–9. HSK 6 explained

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中扛means to carry something on your shoulder. On moving day, your brother swings a heavy sack of rice up onto his shoulder, and you'd say it then. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

扛 is written in 6 strokes.

扛 — the Chinese character for to carry on one's shoulder (káng), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 扛 — to carry on one's shoulder

Senses

to carry on one's shoulder
(fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)

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Where 扛 lives

HSK 6 list Practise HSK 3.0 · band 7–9 Practise Topic: Movement Practise

扛 is pronounced káng and means “to carry on one's shoulder”.