IDENTITY
钱qiánmoney
HSK 1Top 300
CORE MEANING
money
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.moneyHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 钅metal radical (jīn)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰钅戋
- metal (coins)
- gives the sound qián (historical)
USAGE
Common words
钱包qiánbāowallet
价钱jiàqianprice
零钱língqiánsmall change
Graded examples
我钱包里没钱了。Wǒ qiánbāo lǐ méi qián le.HSK2
There is no money left in my wallet.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Metal (钅) coins — money. (Old Chinese coins were metal spades.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #300
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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