钱 錢
Measure word
- 笔 bǐ pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money... attested
- 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
- 块 kuài lump (of earth); chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and... attested in use
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 錢, the traditional character: 钱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Carl，你被钱迷住了。
Carl, you're obsessed with money.
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Maria花很多钱买衣服。
Maria spends a lot of money on clothes.
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一打鸡蛋多少钱？
How much do a dozen eggs cost?
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一打鸡蛋多少钱呀？
How much do a dozen eggs cost?
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一瓶啤酒多少钱？
How much is a beer?
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一领到工资就把钱还给你。
I'll pay you back once I receive my salary.