钞
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money; paper money; variant of 抄[chao1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 金 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鈔
- Common rank
- #2,783
- Unicode
- U+949E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
paper money · Heisig RSH #1613
metal + 少 few
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 钞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 运钞车 | armored car (for transporting valuables) | |
| 钞能力 | (coll.) wealth; financial clout (pun on 超能力[chao1 neng2 li4]) | |
| 印钞机 | money printer | |
| 验钞机 | a device used to check money and detect counterfeit bills | |
| 验钞器 | money counter and counterfeit detection machine | |
| 纪念钞 | commemorative banknote | |
| 美钞 | US dollar bill; greenback | |
| 破钞 | to spend money | |
| 假钞 | counterfeit money; forged note | |
| 钱钞 | money | |
| 钞票 | paper money; a bill (e.g. 100 yuan); CL:張|张[zhang1],紮|扎[za1] | |
| 纸钞 | banknote | |
| 伪钞 | counterfeit currency | |
| 冥钞 | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 少 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound part | few, little; less; inadequate | |
| 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 省 | province; frugal; to save, to leave out | |
| 妙 | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful | |
| 炒 | to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock | |
| 抄 | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize | |
| 纱 | gauze, muslin, yarn | |
| 秒 | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time | |
| 吵 | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb | |
| 耖 | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |