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货币

huòbì

currency

HSK 6 · Topic “Business and Finance”
A stack of round coins beside a folded banknote
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Characters in this word

货 huò

Strokes
8
Radical
贝 — sea shell
Made of
化 to change, to convert, to reform 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

币 bì

Strokes
4
Radical
巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 币

Example phrases

  • 如果货币发行过快，普通家庭的购买力可能会被削弱。 Rúguǒ huòbì fāxíng guò kuài, pǔtōng jiātíng de gòumǎilì kěnéng huì bèi xuēruò. If currency is issued too quickly, the purchasing power of ordinary households may be weakened.
  • 每个国家都有自己的货币。 Měi gè guójiā dōu yǒu zìjǐ de huòbì. Every country has its own currency.
  • 出国旅行前，他先把钱换成当地的货币。 Chūguó lǚxíng qián, tā xiān bǎ qián huàn chéng dāngdì de huòbì. Before travelling abroad, he first changed his money into the local currency.

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