Illustration: In a small Japanese cutlery workshop, a craftsperson holds a newly ground kitchen knife beside the thick rectangular metal blank from which such blades are made. Several intermediate blade shapes lie in sequence on the workbench, showing the same solid material through the manufacturing process.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

鋼はがね

hagane

steel

In compounds, 鋼 is also often read こう. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは鋼はがねのような意志いしを持もっている。

    He has a will of steel.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 鋼はがねを鍛錬たんれんする

    to forge steel

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 通常つうじょう、刀匠とうしょうは焼やき入いれの時ときには作業場さぎょうばの照明しょうめいを暗くらくして、鋼はがねの温度おんどをその光加減ひかりかげんで判断はんだんする。

    Generally during Yaki-ire, Tosho dims the light of the workshop, and judges the temperature of steel by its glow.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 鋼

  • 鋼steelOnコウKunはがね

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