Talk:秤

Borrowings?

"The tenge (Kazakh теңге, teñge) is the currency of Kazakhstan." [...]

"The word tenge in the Kazakh and most other Turkic languages means a set of scales. The origin of the word is the Turkic teğ- which means being equal, balance. The name of this currency is thus similar to the lira, pound and peso. The name of the currency is related to the Russian word for money деньги / den'gi, which was borrowed from Turkic." -- Excerpts from w:Tenge.

See also: tenge, деньги. --nemo 03:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Modified --nemo 04:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

A new symbol for tenge on the right. This may be compared with the following Chinese ideographs, collectively meaning "balance, scale" in Sino-Korean. --nemo 05:39, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

天 平 秤

See also: 等 (Korean hangul: 등, revised: deung; Mandarin pinyin: děng (deng3), Wade-Giles: teng3) meaning "equal, level" --nemo 06:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)