jīn

metal

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

Components
今 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

jīn

  

now

Remnant from the top part of .

王 iconic component

  Iconic component

wángwàng

  

king

Depicts a metal axe.

吕 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

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

 

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]

 

Jīn

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

Most common words with 金
Freq.
Word
Meaning

gold

资金

funds

基金

fund

现金

cash

金融

banking

Component uses

Meaning component in 41 characters (23 verified)

𨭗 𬭇

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

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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