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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bì | bi4
English translation
money
coins
currency
silk
currency, coins, legal tender

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Number of strokes

4

Traditional form

Contains the radical

jīn

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

Bills written on silk  jīn

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

丿巾

Explanation

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. jīn represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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南希 Nán xī 走近 zǒu jìn , shè le 地上 dì shang Zhāng shí Yuán 纸币 zhǐ bì .

Nancy to me and a ten - yuan on the.

有些 yǒu xiē 硬币 yìng bì shì yòng yín zuò de .

Some coins are made of silver.

警察 jǐngchá 很快 jiù 找到 zhǎo dào le 那些 nà xiē 散发 sànfā 二十 èr shí Yuán 票面伪币 wěi bì de 家伙 jiāhuo .

The police quickly found the distributors of the bogus twenty - dollar bills.

这个 zhè ge 剧本 jùběn de 商人 shāng rén Xià 洛克 jiè gěi 安东尼奥3000 kuài 金币 jīn bì .

According to that script, the merchant, Shylock, lent 3,000 ducats to Antonio.

ràng 我们 wǒmen lái zhì 钱币 qián bì 决定 juédìng shuí 付账 fù zhàng .

Let's toss to see who pays it.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
硬币 yìng bì coin硬幣
人民币 rénmínbì Renminbi (RMB)人民幣
货币 huòbì currency貨幣
money
金币 jīn bì gold coin金幣
银币 yín bì silver coinage銀幣
港币 Gǎng bì Hong Kong currency港幣
纸币 zhǐ bì bank notes紙幣
钱币 qián bì money錢幣
外币 wài bì foreign currency外幣
货币市场 huò bì shì chǎng money market貨幣市場
新台币 Xīn tái bì New Taiwan dollar (NTD)新台幣
币值 bì zhí value of a currency幣值
铸币 zhù bì coin鑄幣
国际货币基金组织 Guó jì Huò bì Jī jīn Zǔ zhī International Monetary Fund (IMF)國際貨幣基金組織
投币 tóu bì coin-operated投幣
台币 Tái bì New Taiwan dollar台幣
欧洲货币 Ōu zhōu huò bì Euro歐洲貨幣
冥币 míng bì false paper money burned as an offering to the dead冥幣

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Decomposition

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