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CHINESE CHARACTER FORMATION & ETYMOLOGY

 

 

金

 

 

? strokes ( 金)

ㄐl ㄣ1 (jien1)

jīn

 

金 = gold; metals in general; money; highly respected; name of a Chinese Dynasty => associative compound of various objects, i.e. arrowheads 人 , hatchets 王 , and ingots 丷 , which are made of metal; its side-radical is 钅which appears in over 200 characters

 

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