錢

See also 钱, and 銭

Translingual

shinjitai	銭
simplified	钱
traditional	錢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 釒 (“money”) + 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)

1. money, currency, coins
2. A surname, listed second in the Baijiaxing & the dynasty of the kings of Wuyue
3. unit of weight

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

錢 (simplified 钱, jyutping cin4, cin2, Yale chin4, chin2)

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Japanese

Kanji

錢

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

錢 (simplified 钱, pinyin jiǎn (jian3), qián (qian2, Qián (Qian2), Wade-Giles chien³, ch'ien², Ch'ien²)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

錢 (POJ chîⁿ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

錢 (tiền)