杠杆 gànggǎn▶ palanca

Stroke order

杠杆 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 杠 — 7 strokes
• 杆 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. lever
2. pry bar
3. crowbar
4. financial leverage

Related words

• 岗位puesto
• 高超sobresaliente; excelente; magnífico

杠杆 is pronounced gànggǎn and means “palanca”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 杠杆 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.