金 jīn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 金 — gold, metal
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
金钱
jīnqián
money
Characters in this word
钱 qián
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 钅 — gold, metal
- Made of
- 钅 gold, metal 戋 small, narrow
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 在公共服务领域，金钱不能成为衡量一切的唯一标准。 Zài gōnggòng fúwù lǐngyù, jīnqián bù néng chéngwéi héngliáng yíqiè de wéiyī biāozhǔn. In the field of public services, money cannot become the only standard for measuring everything.
- 有些东西是用金钱买不到的，比如健康。 Yǒuxiē dōngxi shì yòng jīnqián mǎi bú dào de, bǐrú jiànkāng. Some things cannot be bought with money, such as health.
- 他从小就不太在乎金钱，只想做自己喜欢的事。 Tā cóngxiǎo jiù bú tài zàihu jīnqián, zhǐ xiǎng zuò zìjǐ xǐhuan de shì. Even as a child he did not care much about money and only wanted to do what he liked.