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銅錢

简铜钱 · 繁銅錢

Mandarin · pinyin tóng qián

copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)

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tung4 cin4

Cantonese word readings for 銅錢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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an ancient coin with a square hole in the centre; copper cash; coin (Classifier: 枚 m)