Entry
  1. string of copper coins (in ancient China); (fig.) an overly money-oriented person; (zoology) centipede

    trad. 錢串子

Also written 錢串子【qián chuàn zi】

Characters in this word

3
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to string together, to skewer, to connect wrongly, to gang up, to rove, string, bunch, skewer, classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of, to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus), to move across

Pinyin
chuàn
Strokes
7
Frequency
17771 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

Pinyin
Strokes
3
Frequency
2170 of 2500