金gold
gold. 8 strokes. 22 characters in HSK 3.0 Levels 2 to 6 are written with it.
Meaning goldStrokes 8Characters 22Also written 钅
How to write 金
The shapes it is written in
钅 in 20 characters, 金 in 2 characters. They are one radical: a part changes shape to fit where it sits in the character, and the dictionary gives every shape the same meaning.
What it tells you about a character
Of the 22 characters below, 19 are pictophonetic with 金 as the half that carries the meaning — the other half carries the sound. That is the use of knowing a radical: it narrows what a new character is about before you know how to say it.
The 22 characters
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for the 金 family
HSK 2 · 4
HSK 3 · 2
HSK 4 · 4
HSK 5 · 5
HSK 6 · 7
Words they appear in
| 不错 | pretty good, not bad 做得或表现得让人满意 |
| 地铁 | the subway, the metro 在地下轨道上运行的城市交通工具 |
| 地铁站 | subway station 乘客上下地铁、换乘的停靠点 |
| 分钟 | minute (unit of time) 计量时间长短的一种单位 |
| 银行 | bank 专门办理存钱取钱业务的机构 |
| 银行卡 | bank card 银行发行、可以用来存取付款的卡片 |
| 金牌 | the first-place gold medal 比赛中获得第一名的选手拿到的奖牌 |
| 铁路 | railway line 火车行驶用的长长的路，是用铁做的 |
| 现金 | cash, physical banknotes 看得见摸得着的钱，不是卡里的数字 |
| 资金 | capital, funds for a project 用来投资或办事的一大笔钱 |
| 价钱 | the asking price of goods 买东西时双方说定的钱数 |
| 错误 | a flawed, mistaken result 做得不对、需要改正的地方 |
| 钟 | a clock 挂在墙上或摆在桌上、能显示时间的器具 |
| 铁 | iron, metal 一种坚硬的金属材料 |