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秤

chèng

weighing scale

A balance scale with apples on one pan and a weight on the other.
Memory picture

Character

秤 chèng

Strokes
10
Radical
禾 — cereal, grain, rice
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 平 flat, level, even
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 这台秤若没有定期校准,检测结果就不具备法律效力。 Zhè tái chèng ruò méiyǒu dìngqī jiàozhǔn, jiǎncè jiéguǒ jiù bú jùbèi fǎlǜ xiàolì. If this scale is not calibrated regularly, its measurement results will have no legal validity.
  • 小贩把苹果放上秤,一共三斤。 Xiǎofàn bǎ píngguǒ fàng shàng chèng, yígòng sān jīn. The vendor put the apples on the scale: three jin in all.
  • 这杆秤用了很多年,还是很准。 Zhè gǎn chèng yòng le hěn duō nián, háishi hěn zhǔn. This steelyard has been used for many years and is still accurate.

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