錢

錢 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金戈戈 (CII), four-corner 8315₃, composition ⿰釒戔)

• 籛 𪷻 𮕒 𨪑 𬬌 𪩞 𧂂 𥃒 𥗛 𧔢 𪈇

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1311, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40563
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4217, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9322

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslenʔ, *zlen) : semantic 金 (“metal; gold; money”) + phonetic 戔 (OC *zlaːn).

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錢

1. money; cash

   我沒有錢。／我没有钱。  ―  Wǒ méiyǒu qián.  ―  I don't have money.

2. currency; coins

   古錢／古钱  ―  gǔ qián  ―  ancient coin

   銅錢／铜钱  ―  tóngqián  ―  copper (coin)

3. cost; fund; expense

   多少錢？／多少钱？  ―  Duōshao qián?  ―  How much does it cost?

   偌濟錢？／偌济钱？ [Hokkien]  ―  Gōa chē chîⁿ? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  How much does it cost?

   車錢／车钱  ―  chēqián  ―  transport cost

4. coin-shaped object

   榆錢／榆钱  ―  yúqián  ―  fruit of an elm tree

5. mace (unit of weight equivalent to one tenth of a 兩／两 (liǎng, “tael”) and equal to ten 分 (fēn, “candareen”))
6. a surname. Qian, listed second in the Baijiaxing & the dynasty of the kings of Wuyue

   錢穆／钱穆  ―  Qián Mù  ―  Chien Mu (Chinese historian)

Others:

• → English: Qian, Chien, Tsien, Chin
• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *dzi̯en (“money”)
• → Thai: สิน (sǐn, “money”)
• → Malay: ci (“mace”)
• → Mongolian: цэн (cen)
• → Zhuang: cienz (“money; coin; mace”)

錢

1. ^† a kind of farm tool

   • 錢鎛停置，農收積場。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     钱镈停置，农收积场。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 3rd century, Cao Cao, 《步出夏門行·冬十月》

     Jiǎn bó tíng zhì, nóng shōu jī cháng.

     Spades and hoes are put aside; crops are piled up on the ground.

• “錢”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #12022”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 銭)

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• Go-on: せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni, 錢)、すき (suki, 錢)

錢 (eumhun 돈 전 (don jeon))

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錢: Hán Việt readings: tiền^[1][2][3]
錢: Nôm readings: tiền^[1]

1. chữ Hán form of tiền (“money”).