秤 chèng
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chèng
noun
scale; platform balance
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As in 磅秤; variant of 称 (CC-CEDICT '秤'; Guoyu '秤' n; Kroll 2015 '秤' 1, p. 49; Mathews 1931 '秤', p. 50; Unihan '秤'; XHZD '秤', p. 87) -
chèng
noun
steelyard
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '秤'; Kroll 2015 '秤' 1, p. 49; Mathews 1931 '秤', p. 50; Unihan '秤') -
chèng
noun
a weight equal to 15 catties
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '秤' 2, p. 49) -
chèng
verb
to weigh
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '秤' v)
Contained in
- 秤纽(秤紐) scale handles
- 秤锤(秤錘) steelyard weights
- 秤到准(秤到準) to weigh accurately
- 秤星 a marking on a balance arm
- 秤薪而爨 to weight the firewood and then do the cooking; extremely frugal
- 秤平斗满(秤平斗滿) an even scale with full measure; to deal fairly
- 折秤 discrepancy in weight
- 弹簧秤(彈簧秤) spring balance
- 盘秤(盤秤) balance consisting of steelyard with a pan
- 掉秤 to lose weight (of cattle)
- 秤盘(秤槃) the tray or pan of a steelyard
- 掌秤 to weigh
- 秤钩(秤鉤) a scale hook
- 秤砣虽小压千斤(秤砣雖小壓千斤) although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds; apparently insignificant details can have a large impact
- 秤柴而爨 to weight the firewood and then do the cooking; extremely frugal
- 秤鉈 balance weight
- 天秤 balance scale
- 秤杆(秤桿) a balance arm; a scale
- 杆秤(桿秤) a steelyard (a type of balance)
- 磅秤 scale; platform balance
- 秤钩子(秤鉤子) scale hook
- 秤砣 steelyard weight; standard weight
- 天秤座 Libra
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
- 卷78 孫紹 張普惠 Volume 78: Sun Shao, Zhang Puhui Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
- 卷一百七十一 志第一百二十四 職官十一 Volume 171 Treatises 124: Offical Posts 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
- 卷九十七 志第四十五下: 食貨五 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 4
- 卷四十六 列傳第三十四: 孫紹 張普惠 成淹 范紹 劉桃符 鹿悆 張燿 劉道斌 董紹 馮元興 Volume 46 Biographies 34: Sun Shao, Zhang Puhui, Cheng Yan, Fan Shao, Liu Taofu, Lu Yu, Zhang Yao, Liu Daobin, Dong Shao, Feng Yuanxing History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 3
- 第三十八回 Chapter 38 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第四十九回 Chapter 49 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷十一 本紀第十一: 代宗 Volume 11 Annals 11: Daizong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 第五十四回 Chapter 54 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
- 第八十五回 Chapter 85 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
Collocations
- 一秤 (一秤) 銀一秤 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第八十五回 Chapter 85 — count: 14
- 秤金 (秤金) 及多秤金數 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷一百〇四 志第五十二: 刑法三 Volume 104 Treatises 57: Punishment and Law 3 — count: 11
- 论秤 (論秤) 論秤分金銀 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十五回 Chapter 15 — count: 5
- 秤分 (秤分) 大秤分金銀 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十二回 Chapter 12 — count: 5
- 秤量 (秤量) 必度忖秤量 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷78 孫紹 張普惠 Volume 78: Sun Shao, Zhang Puhui — count: 4
- 秤盘 (秤盤) 秤盤定罪 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百四十六 志8: 食貨志 Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics — count: 4
- 重秤 (重秤) 改重秤 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷78 孫紹 張普惠 Volume 78: Sun Shao, Zhang Puhui — count: 4
- 小秤 (小秤) 都是大斗小秤欺痴蠢 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第十一回 Chapter 11 — count: 3
- 秤提 (秤提) 楮幣秤提 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百〇八 列傳第一百六十七 吳昌裔 汪綱 陳宓 王霆 Volume 408 Biographies 167: Wu Changyi, Wang Gang, Chen Mi, Wang Ting — count: 2
- 斗秤 (鬥秤) 諸州府所用鬥秤 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十一 本紀第十一: 代宗 Volume 11 Annals 11: Daizong — count: 2