Radical
Strokes
4
Residual strokes
Not recorded
Mandarin
jīn
Teochew

Glyph

Radical
Residual strokes
Not recorded
Strokes
4 strokes
Mandarin
jīn

Definitions by reading

geng1
Mandarin equivalent jīn
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng gend1 Chaoyang ging1 Chenghai geng1 Jieyang gêng1 Raoping geng1 Shantou geng1
jīn
①重量单位:市制一~为十两(旧制一斤为十六两),两斤等于一公斤 | "觔"另见筋(觔) 
②〈古〉斧子一类的工具
③[斤斤]琐碎细小:~~其明 | ~ ~计较 
④[斤斗]也作"筋斗"、"跟斗",身体上下翻转的动作 | 〈喻〉挫折,跌跤:栽~斗

①重量单位,市制一斤为十两,合公制二分之一公斤
②古代砍伐树木的工具
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English meaning

a catty (approximately 500 g); an axe; keen, shrewd; KangXi radical number 69

GuangyunPhonological reconstruction

1
見母 三等 開口 殷韵 平声 舉欣切
Reconstruction:
Original

十六兩也。《說文》曰:「斫木也。」又虜複姓二氏,《後魏書》去斤氏,後改爲艾氏,奇斤氏,後改爲奇氏,舉欣切四。

2
見母 三等 開口 殷韵 去声 居焮切
Reconstruction:
Original

爾雅曰:明明斤斤,察也,又居勤切。