綱
gāng

heavy rope

纲 (綱) gāng
class noun
a taxonomic rank in biological classification below phylum and above order

学生们需要记住不同动物在生物学上所属的纲。

xué​sheng men xū​yào jì​zhu bù​tóng dòng​wù zài shēng​wù​xué shàng suǒ​shǔ de gāng.

Students need to memorize the biological classes to which different animals belong.

guiding principle noun
a fundamental principle or the key link in a complex situation

我们必须抓住工作的纲。

wǒ​men bì​xū zhuā​zhù gōng​zuò de gāng.

We must grasp the key link of our work.

head rope noun
the main rope of a fishing net used to pull or hold it

渔夫抓住了渔网的网纲。

yú​fū zhuā​zhù le yú​wǎng de wǎng gāng.

The fisherman grabbed the headrope of the fishing net.

outline noun
a general plan, program, or summary of the main points of a document

这份课程大纲里列出了本学期的所有重点。

zhè fèn kè​chéng dà​gāng lǐ liè​chū le běn xué​qī de suǒ​yǒu zhòng​diǎn.

This course syllabus lists all the key points for the semester.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,934th most common 40.5 per million
Movie subtitles
3,225th most common 2.39 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.49 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.67 per million

Details
Simplified
纲
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7DB1

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