斤

See also 觔, and 斥

Translingual

Stroke order

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Han character

斤 (radical 69 斤+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹一中 (HML), four-corner 7222₁)

1. a catty (approximately 500 g)
2. an axe / ax
3. keen, shrewd
4. KangXi radical number 69

See also

• 斥

References

• KangXi: page 479, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13534
• Dae Jaweon: page 837, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2022, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65A4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

斤 (Yale gan1)

Romanization

• catty
• kan
• gan1

Noun

斤 (traditional and simplified)

1. (Hong Kong) catty or kan, a traditional unit of weight, legally defined as equal to 0.60478982 kilograms (公斤)

See also

• 担 , 兩 , 錢 , 分 , 金衡兩 , 金衡錢 , 金衡分
• 公斤 , 克

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Hakka

Hanzi

斤 (POJ kin, Guangdong kin¹, Hagfa Pinyim gin1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

斤 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きん (kin), こん (kon)
• Kun: おの (ono)

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Korean

Hanja

斤 (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

斤 (pinyin jīn (jin1), Wade-Giles chin¹)

Noun

1. catty

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Vietnamese

Han character

斤 (cân, rìu, gần)