銭

See also 錢

Translingual

shinjitai	銭
simplified	钱
traditional	錢

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 錢 (戔 → 㦮); simplified component is approximately 戋 with an extra 一; compare 残.

Han character

銭 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金戈手 (CIQ))

1. money, currency, coins

Related characters

• 残

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1305, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40413
• Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4193, character 3
• Unihan data for U+92AD

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Japanese

Kanji

銭 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen), ぜん (zen)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni), すき (suki)

Compounds

銭湯 (せんとう, sentō, “bath house”)

小銭 (こぜに, kozeni, “small change”)

銭亀 (ぜにがめ, zenigame, “pond turtle”)

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Korean

Hanja

銭 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

銭 (pinyin qián (qian2), Wade-Giles ch'ien²)