錢

See also: 钱 and 銭
錢 U+9322, 錢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9322
← 錡
[U+9321] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 錣 →
[U+9323]

Translingual
Traditional 錢
Shinjitai 銭
Simplified 钱

Han character

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

References
  • KangXi: page 1311, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40563
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4217, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9322

Chinese
trad. 錢
simp. 钱
variant forms 銭

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (戔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殘 *zlaːn, *zaːns
戔 *zlaːn
帴 *zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd
虥 *zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
盞 *ʔsreːnʔ
醆 *ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ
琖 *ʔsreːnʔ
剗 *sʰreːnʔ
棧 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ
輚 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
嶘 *zreːnʔ
錢 *ʔslenʔ, *zlen
俴 *ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ
籛 *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn
淺 *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn
濺 *ʔsens, *ʔseːn
踐 *zlenʔ
諓 *zlenʔ, *zlens
餞 *zlenʔ, *zlens
賤 *zlens
綫 *slens
箋 *ʔsleːn
牋 *ʔsleːn

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

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • chîⁿ - vernacular;
  • chiân - literary;
  • chhiân - limited (e.g. in 一錢，二緣，三媠，四少年).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 錢
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰian³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰian²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰian⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiã⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡sʰiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰian⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiã²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiã²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰian⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰiɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰian⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰian³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰian²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰien²⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰiĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰie¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰie̞¹³/
/t͡ɕie̞¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑi²³/
Suzhou /ziɪ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑi³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰiɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡siẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡ziẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɛn²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰien¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰien¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰin²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰin²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰin²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sian³⁵/
/t͡sĩ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡siŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sĩ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡si³¹/
Rime
Character 錢
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昨仙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ziɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zian/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziɛn/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qián
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 錢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qián
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-ts[a][n]/
English coin, money

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 錢
Reading # 2/2
No. 6003
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 錢
Old
Chinese		 /*zlen/

Definitions

錢

  1. money; cash
    我沒有錢。 / 我没有钱。  ―  Wǒ méi yǒu 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？ [Min Nan]  ―  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.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 錢 (“money”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 錢
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 錢
Mandarin Beijing 錢, 錢兒
Tianjin 錢
Jinan 錢, 票子
Xi'an 錢
Wuhan 錢, 角子
Chengdu 錢
Yangzhou 錢
Hefei 錢
Cantonese Guangzhou 錢, 銀, 銀紙
Hong Kong 錢, 銀, 銀紙
Taishan 錢, 銀, 銀紙, 鐳
Yangjiang 錢
Gan Nanchang 錢
Hakka Meixian 錢
Jin Taiyuan 錢
Min Bei Jian'ou 錢
Min Dong Fuzhou 錢
Min Nan Xiamen 錢, 鐳
Quanzhou 錢, 鐳
Zhangzhou 錢, 鐳, 阿字仔
Taipei 錢
Penang 鐳, 錢, 銀
Singapore 鐳, 錢
Philippines (Manila) 錢
Chaozhou 鐳
Wu Shanghai 鈔票, 銅鈿
Hangzhou 銅鈿
Wenzhou 鈔票, 銅鈿, 番鈿
Chongming 鈔票, 銅錢, 番錢, 銅錢銀, 銅板, 板
Xiang Changsha 錢
Shuangfeng 錢
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (錢):

Others:

  • → Mongolian: цэн (tsen)

Compounds
Derived terms from 錢

Pronunciation 2
Rime
Character 錢
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即淺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sianX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 錢
Reading # 1/2
No. 5996
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 翦
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

錢

  1. a kind of farm tools

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai

 銭

Kyūjitai

 錢

Kanji
錢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 銭)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

錢 • (jeon) (hangeul 전)

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Vietnamese

Han character

錢 (tiền)

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