钱 (錢) qián
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noun
money; currency
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '錢' qián n 1; Unihan '錢') -
measure word
unit of weight equal to 5 grams
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: This unit is used in the Chinese Market System of Weights and Measures (Guoyu '錢' qián n 5) -
noun
a coin; a copper coin
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 钱 is a 金属货币 metallic coin (Guoyu '錢' n 4; Unihan '錢') -
noun
a copper item
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 钱 is synonymous with 铜钱. -
noun
wealth
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '錢' qián n 2) -
suffix
cost; expenditure; expense
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 饭钱 'meal expense', 车钱 'transportation expense' (Guoyu '錢' qián n 3) -
proper noun
Qian
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '錢' qián n 6) -
adjective
holding money
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '錢' qián adj) -
noun
a historic agricultural tool
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '錢' jiǎn n)
Contained in
- 店钱(店錢) room charge in a hotel; accommodation expenses
- 剩钱(剩錢) to have money left; remaining money
- 买路钱(買路錢) money extorted as a right of passage; illegal toll
- 份子钱(份子錢) gift money
- 冤钱(冤錢) pointless expense; not worth the money spent
- 金钱挂帅(金錢掛帥) caring only about money and wealth
- 赚大钱(賺大錢) to earn a fortune
- 金钱不能买来幸福(金錢不能買來幸福) money can't buy happiness
- 要钱(要錢) to charge; to demand payment
- 银钱(銀錢) silver money
- 省钱(省錢) to save money
- 洗黑钱(洗黑錢) money laundering
- 有钱(有錢) to be well off; to be wealthy
- 找钱(找錢) to give change
- 给他加上一块钱(給他加上一塊錢) give him one a few moe dollars
- 赚钱(賺錢) to earn money
- 力钱(力錢) payment to a porter
- 摊钱(攤錢) to bear part of the cost
- 一分钱一分货(一分錢一分貨) nothing for nothing; you get what you pay for
- 钱包(錢包) purse; wallet
- 钱财(錢財) wealth; money
- 摇钱树(搖錢樹) money tree
- 体己钱(體己錢) private saved money of close family members
- 涨钱(漲錢) inflation; salary raise
- 压岁钱(壓歲錢) money given to children as new year present
- 钞钱(鈔錢) [paper] cash
- 零钱(零錢) small change ; pocket money ; supplimentary income
- 攒钱(攢錢) to collect money; to accumulate money ; collected money
- 俸钱(俸錢) salary
- 有钱能使鬼推磨(有錢能使鬼推磨) money will make the Devil turn millstones; with money, you can do anything you like
- 赔钱(賠錢) to lose money; to pay for damages
- 遮丑钱(遮醜錢) blackmail money
- 不值钱(不值錢) of little value
- 钱物(錢物) money and things of value
- 换钱(換錢) to change money; to sell
- 金钱非万能(金錢非萬能) money is not omnipotent; money isn't everything; money can't buy you love
- 揾钱(搵錢) to make money
- 付钱(付錢) to pay money
- 差钱(差錢) to owe money
- 凑钱(湊錢) to raise enough money to do something; to pool money; to club together (to do sth)
- 香火钱(香火錢) donations to a temple
- 偿钱(償錢) to repay a loan
- 纸钱(紙錢) joss paper; ritual money
- 臭钱(臭錢) dirty money
- 地钱(地錢) liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha)
- 除陌钱(除陌錢) a kind of tax in the Tang dynasty
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- 卷一百八十 志第一百三十三 食貨下二 Volume 180 Treatises 133: Finance and Economics 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 349
- 卷九十六 志第四十五上: 食貨四 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 213
- 卷四十八 志第二十八: 食貨上 Volume 48 Treatises 28: Finance and Economics 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 179
- 卷五十四 志第四十四 食貨四 Volume 54 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 157
- 卷一百七十二 志第一百二十五 職官十二 Volume 172 Treatises 125: Offical Posts 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 155
- 卷九十四 志第四十三: 食貨二 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 147
- 卷四十八 志第二十九: 食貨三 錢幣 Volume 48 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 3 - Money History of Jin 金史 — count: 146
- 卷一百八十三 志第一百三十六 食貨下五 Volume 183 Treatises 136: Finance and Economics 2e History of Song 宋史 — count: 136
- 卷一百七十七 志第一百三十 食貨上五 Volume 177 Treatises 130: Finance and Economics 1e History of Song 宋史 — count: 135
- 卷一百七十五 志第一百二十八 食貨上三 Volume 175 Treatises 128: Finance and Economics 1c History of Song 宋史 — count: 131
Collocations
- 缗钱 (緡錢) 異時算軺車賈人緡錢皆有差 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 10
- 铢钱 (銖錢) 行八銖錢 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 7
- 十钱 (十錢) 中歲之穀糶石十錢 — Guanzi 管子, 國蓄第七十三 Chapter 73: State Reserves — count: 5
- 钱金 (錢金) 錢金 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — count: 4
- 钱五 (錢五) 楚以生鹿藏錢五倍 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重戊第八十四 Chapter 84: Weight V — count: 3
- 行钱 (行錢) 初行錢 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 3
- 钱二 (錢二) 令中大夫王邑載錢二千萬求生鹿於楚 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重戊第八十四 Chapter 84: Weight V — count: 3
- 贷钱 (貸錢) 貸錢者多不能與其息 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孟嘗君列傳》 Biography of Lord Mengchang — count: 3
- 百钱 (百錢) 曾不如百錢之狸 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十七 雜言 Chapter 17: Open Discussion — count: 3
- 钱三 (錢三) 為錢三千萬 — Guanzi 管子, 海王第七十二 Chapter 72: King of the Sea — count: 3