| 纲领 | gāng lǐng | program; guiding principle |
| 纲 | gāng | head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program |
| 纲要 | gāng yào | outline; essential points |
| 大纲 | dà gāng | main point; leading principles; synopsis; syllabus |
| 提纲 | tí gāng | the key point; outline |
| 政纲 | zhèng gāng | political program; platform |
| 党纲 | dǎng gāng | (political) party platform; party program |
| 三纲五常 | sān gāng wǔ cháng | three principles and five virtues (idiom); the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 义, propriety 礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) |
| 共同纲领 | gòng tóng gāng lǐng | common program; formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan |
| 本草纲目 | běn cǎo gāng mù | Compendium of medical herbs 1596, compiled by Lǐ Shízhēn 李时珍 |
| 亚纲 | yà gāng | subclass (taxonomy) |
| 量纲 | liàng gāng | dimension (unit) |
中苏解决悬案大纲
协定 | Zhōng Sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng | the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China |
| 倍足纲 | bèi zú gāng | Diplopoda (zoology) |
| 吸虫纲 | xī chóng gāng | Class Trematoda; fluke; trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans |
| 哺乳纲 | bǔ rǔ gāng | Mammalia, the class of mammals |
| 圆口纲脊椎动物 | yuán kǒu gāng jǐ zhuī dòng wù | cyclostome (marine biology) |
| 埃尔朗根纲领 | Āi ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐng | Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory |
| 接合菌纲 | jiē hé jūn gāng | Zygomycetes |
| 提纲挈领 | tí gāng qiè lǐng | to concentrate on the main points (idiom); to bring out the essentials |
| 朝纲 | cháo gāng | laws and discipline of imperial court |
| 木兰纲 | mù lán gāng | Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves) |
| 横纲 | héng gāng | yokozuna |
| 涡虫纲 | wō chóng gāng | Turbellaria (an order of flatworms) |
| 瓣鳃纲 | bàn sāi gāng | Lamellibranchia; class of bivalves |
| 真菌纲 | zhēn jūn gāng | Eumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi) |
| 绦虫纲 | tāo chóng gāng | Cestoda (an order of flatworms) |
| 纲举目张 | gāng jǔ mù zhāng | if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom); take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves; (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered |
| 腹足纲 | fù zú gāng | gastropod (class of mollusks including snails) |
| 蜥形纲 | xī xíng gāng | Sauropsida, class within Chordata containing reptiles |
| 行动纲领 | xíng dòng gāng lǐng | action plan; program of action |
| 裂殖菌纲 | liè zhí jūn gāng | Schizomycetes (taxonomic class of fungi) |
| 鞭毛纲 | biān máo gāng | flagellate |
| 头足纲 | tóu zú gāng | cephalopod; Cephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid |
