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千金

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Chinese

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thousand metal; gold; money
simp. and trad.
(千金)
Literally: “a thousand pieces of gold”.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (14) (28)
Final () (85) (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter tshen kim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰen/ /kˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰen/ /kᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɛn/ /kiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰɛn/ /kjim/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰen/ /kjəm/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰien/ /kĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰien/ /ki̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiān jīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cin1 gam1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiān jīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshen › ‹ kim ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.n̥ˁi[ŋ]/ /*k(r)[ə]m/
English thousand metal, bronze

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10792 6679
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sn̥ʰiːn/ /*krɯm/
Notes

Noun

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千金

  1. large amount of money; riches
    備急千金备急千金  ―  bèijí qiānjīn yào fāng  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (honorific) daughter (not of one's own)

Derived terms

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Adjective

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千金

  1. (figurative) extremely precious

Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (千金):

References

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