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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *錢* | 錢* | *錢
coin / money / CL: 筆|笔 / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *投* | 投* | *投
to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泉* | 泉* | *泉
spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *文* | 文* | *文
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
HSK 7-9
coin / CL:
HSK 7-9
money (esp. coins)
gold coin
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幣* | 幣* | *幣
money / coins / currency / silk
big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 on the obverse side
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纙* | 纙* | *纙
string on which coins are strung
silver coin
large sum of money / old Chinese type of coin of high denomination
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鏝* | 鏝* | *鏝
side of coin without words / trowel
to emboss / coining / knurling
old coin
copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin
to throw sth a long distance / to hurl / to throw at / to throw (dice etc) / to flip (a coin)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鈿* | 鈿* | *鈿
(dialect) coin; money
copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
legendary tree that sheds coins when shaken / (fig.) source of easy money
coin / to mint (coins)
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
small coin / dime
fractional currency (coin or note of value smaller than the country's unit of currency) / token (used instead of money for slot machines etc)
one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)
copper coin of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
string of copper coins (in ancient China) / (fig.) an overly money-oriented person / (zoology) centipede
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坯* | 坯* | *坯
blank (e.g. for a coin) / unburnt earthenware / semifinished product / Taiwan pr. [pei1]
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鏹* | 鏹* | *鏹
money / string of coins
(loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007 / tolar, silver coin that served as the main currency of Bohemia 1520-1750
blank (for a coin etc) / breed or strain
coin slot
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鏰* | 鏰* | *鏰
small coin / dime
silver coin from the early days of the Republic of China (1912-1949) bearing the head of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯
coin (archaic)
to coin (words or expressions)
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繦* | 繦* | *繦
string of copper coins / variant of
to divine by tossing coins
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *緡* | 緡* | *緡
cord / fishing-line / string of coins
(fig.) two sides of the same coin
one cent (United States coin)
two-way / reversible / both sides of the coin
a ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top (neologism c. 2012, coined by analogy with 食物鏈|食物链, food chain)
(slang, coined c. 2017, contrasted with 佛系) Dao-type, a type of person who has traits associated with a Daoist approach to life, such as being active, optimistic, earthy and forthright
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
coin blank
scary to think about (coll.) (coined c. 2013)
World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网
coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝, with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文)
écu (French coin, discontinued by the end of the 18th century)
piggy bank / coin bank / money box
baggage locker / coin locker
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
sorry to interrupt you, but ... / sorry to have bothered you / sorry, I have to go / (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable
coin-operated / to insert coins
coin-operated / to insert a coin
round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China
lesbian-like (i.e. exhibiting lesbian traits) (coined c. 2018)
(gaming) (of a monster etc) to drop gold coins when defeated / (fig.) (slang) to give or spend money


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