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  *金* | 金* | *金
gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
gold medal / CL:
HSK 3
money / currency
HSK 6
banking / finance / financial
HSK 6
sum of money / monetary value
HSK 6
metal / CL: 種|种
HSK 7-9
pyramid (building or structure)
HSK 7-9
gold
HSK 7-9
Jin'an, a district of Lu'an City 六安市, Anhui
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
Jinshan suburban district of Shanghai
gold standard (monetary system)
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *金* | 金* | *金
surname Jin / surname Kim (Korean) / Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
canary
copper gold alloy
Jinsha River, the upper course of the Yangtze River 長江|长江 in southwestern China
blond / blonde / fair-haired
Jincheng (common place name) / Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
gold coin
(bird species of China) green-crowned warbler (Phylloscopus burkii)
lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom) / attendants of the Daoist immortals / fig. lovely young children / a golden couple / (of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
Jinshui District of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市, Henan
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan / Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian, PRC
golden cudgel, weapon wielded by Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
gold and silver
financial sector / the banking business
Jinshan suburban district of Shanghai / Jinshan or Chinshan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
financial market
Admiralty, Hong Kong
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce
Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast) / Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian
Campbell (name) / Kampar, town in the state of Perak, Malaysia
gold leaf
Jinchang, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省
banking circles / the world of finance
gold bar
goldfish
(lit.) tablet with inscription in gold / (fig.) pass list for the top imperial examinations; roll of honor
gold color
Jinfeng or Chinfeng township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
Jintang county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan
Jinshui District of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市, Henan
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇
profound friendship / sworn brotherhood
Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia
BRIC / BRICS economic bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
orange day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
pre-Han name for Nanjing / common place name
golden / gold (color)
Ca Mau, Vietnam
leopard
golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
impregnable fortress (abbr. for 金城湯池|金城汤池)
Venus (planet)
gold star / stars (that one sees from blow to the head etc)
to win top marks in the imperial examinations
Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Tw)
golden-bright and dazzling
tortoise / scarab beetle
tuna
Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)
a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom); a magnificent house built for a beloved woman
Jinhua, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
gold and jade in glorious splendor (idiom) / fig. a dazzling sight (e.g. royal palace)
lit. gold and jade fill the hall (idiom) / fig. abundant wealth / abundance of knowledge
University of Nanking
reddish-gold (color)
gin
Jinchuan district of Jinchang city 金昌市, Gansu
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
carborundum / emery
the imperial palace
Jintai District of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市, Shaanxi
very powerful army
gold and silver foil / gold and silver leaf
golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
financier; banker
Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Barramundi / Lates calcarifer (a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes)
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
(idiom) to have a face as terrifying as a temple's guardian deity
broom / furze (family Fabaceae)
metal and stone / fig. hard objects / inscription on metal or bronze
financial organization
Jinta county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
Kingstown, capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines / Kingston, capital of Jamaica
Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup
currency issued by Nationalist Government in 1948
Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
Golden Crow / the sun / the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun
Jinshan or Chinshan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Jinxiang County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
metal fatigue

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