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錢
简 钱 · 繁 錢Characters in this entry
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Mandarin tones
2 · qian2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cin2 · cin4 · zin2
Cantonese word readings for 錢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- money; cash
- currency; coins
- cost; fund; expense
- coin-shaped object
- mace (unit of weight equivalent to one tenth of a 兩／两 (liǎng, “tael”) and equal to ten 分 (fēn, “candareen”))
- a surname, Qian, listed second in the Baijiaxing & the dynasty of the kings of Wuyue
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of farm tool
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