扛
kánggāng HSK7

carry on shoulders

扛 káng frequency
shoulder verb
to carry on one's shoulder

他肩膀上扛着一袋大米。

tā jiān​bǎng shàng káng zhe yī dài dà​mǐ.

He is carrying a bag of rice on his shoulder.

undertake verb
to take on a burden, duty, or responsibility

所有的压力都由他一个人扛。

suǒ​yǒu de yā​lì dōu yóu tā yī gè rén káng.

He bears all the pressure by himself.

扛 gāng
carry together verb
of two or more people, to carry something together

这两个人扛着一根木头。

zhè liǎng gè rén gāng zhe yī gēn mù​tou.

The two men are carrying a log on their shoulders.

lift aloft verb
to raise something heavy high with both hands

项羽力能扛鼎。

Xiàng Yǔ lì néng gāng dǐng.

Xiang Yu was strong enough to lift a bronze tripod.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,989th most common 9.93 per million
Movie subtitles
3,017th most common 3.39 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.74 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
13.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+625B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)