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Kanji Detail for 錢 - "plow, coin, currency unit"
錢
- Meaning
錢 means "plow, coin, currency unit."
Plow - A farming implement for turning soil.
Coin - Money; currency.
Currency unit - One-hundredth of a yen (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
100th of yen
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
money, currency, coins
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Qian
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
money, currency, coins
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A field implement. A type of shovel. 錢鎛 is found in the Book of Odes. | Currency. Cast from metal. In ancient times, farming tools were used for trade. Later, coins were made in their image. The ancient coins seen today with characters meaning "currency" are shaped like the ancient 錢鎛. In later ages, they became round with a square hole in the center, but the name 錢 continued. | A unit of weight. One-tenth of a 兩 is one 錢. In the Kaiyuan era of Tang, the weight of currency was first standardized as a unit of weight. One 錢 by weight equals one coin.
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