錢

See also: 钱 and 銭

Translingual

shinjitai	銭
simplified	钱
traditional	錢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 釒 + phonetic 戔 – a kind of money.

Han character

錢 (radical 167 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金戈戈 (CII), four-corner 8315₃, composition ⿰釒戔)

Descendants

• 銭 钱

Related characters

• 殘

References

• KangXi: page 1311, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40563
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4217, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9322

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Chinese

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trad.		錢
simp.		钱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qián (qian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁴, cin²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhièn
• Min Nan (POJ): chîⁿ
• Wu (WT Romanisation): zi (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qián
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin⁴, cin²
    • Yale: chìhn, chín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁴, tsin²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn²¹ t͡sʰiːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhièn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕʰi̯en¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsînn
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕĩ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕĩ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: zi (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /z̻i²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (錢, reconstructed)
Character (錢), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 從 (15) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 昨仙切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ziᴇn/	/d͡zʱi̯ɛn/	/d͡ziɛn/	/d͡ziɛn/	/d͡zian/	/d͡zĭɛn/	/d͡zjæn/
Character (錢), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 即淺切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡siᴇnX/	/t͡si̯ɛnX/	/t͡siɛnX/	/t͡siɛnX/	/t͡sianX/	/t͡sĭɛnX/	/t͡sjænX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (錢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
錢								qián								‹ dzjen ›								/*N-ts[a][n]/								coin, money
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
錢					5996					戔					元					2					翦					/*ʔslenʔ/
錢					6003					戔					元					2					錢					/*zlen/

Definitions

錢

1. money; cash; fund

   • 我沒有錢。[[]] [MSC, trad.]

     我没有钱。[[]] [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒ méi yǒu qián. [Pinyin]

     I don't have money.

   • 多少錢？ [MSC, trad.]

     多少钱？ [MSC, simp.]

     Duōshao qián? [Pinyin]

     How much does it cost?

2. currency, coins
   • 古錢 / 古钱  ―  gǔ qián  ―  ancient coin
   • 銅錢 / 铜钱  ―  tóngqián  ―  cooper (coin)
3. unit of weight
4. A surname​. Qian, listed second in the Baijiaxing & the dynasty of the kings of Wuyue.

Compounds

• 零錢／零钱 (língqián)

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Japanese

Kanji

錢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 銭)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni), せん (sen)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

錢 (tiền)

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