鋼
gānggàng HSK7

steel

钢 鋼 gāng frequency
steel noun
steel; an alloy of iron and carbon that is tougher than cast iron and harder than wrought iron

这块板子是钢的。

zhè​kuài bǎn​zi shì gāng de.

This board is made of steel.

钢 鋼 gàng
to hone
to sharpen, whet, or strop a blade on leather, cloth, or a stone to make it keen
to retemper
to reinforce or repair a tool's edge by adding steel and retempering
hard
hard; stiff; rigid

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,609th most common 60.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,668th most common 33.3 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.95 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
43.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
钢
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+92FC

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