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金

jīn

metal

Phonosemantic compound. 王 and 吕 represent the meaning and 今 represents the sound. 王 depicts a metal axe and 吕 depicts two metal plates.

Components
今 sound,remnant component

今  Sound Remnant component

jīn

  

now

Remnant from the top part of 今.

王 iconic component

王  Iconic component

wáng, wàng

  

king

Depicts a metal axe.

吕 iconic component

吕  Iconic component

lǚ

  

pitchpipe

Depicts two metal plates.

Evolution

金 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
金 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
金 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
金 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

金  

jīn

gold; metals in general; money; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[bā​yīn]

金  

Jīn

surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)

Most common words with 金
Freq.
Word
Meaning

金

gold

资金

funds

基金

fund

现金

cash

金融

banking

Component uses

Meaning component in 41 characters (23 verified)

錶 錢 钱 錯 劉 鐵 銷 鐘 錄 鎮 針 鏡 鍵 鎖 釘 钉 鑰 鍛 鉛 鉞 鉦 𨭗 𬭇 鉴 鑒 銜 鑿 釜 鑫 銮 鑾 鋈 鍪 鏖 錾 鎏 鏊 銎 鎣 蓥 鐾

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

淦 唫

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

录

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)[ə]m

kim

jīn

metal, bronze


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 70.5270% of movies

365th most common character in movies

260th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+91D1

Shuowen

“金，五色金也。黄為之長，久薶不生衣，百鍊不輕，从革不違。西方之行，生於土，从土，左右注象金在土中形，今聲。，古文金。”


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