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Pinyin: jīnEnglish Definition: catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 gChinese Definition: ①中国市制重量单位：二斤。斤斤(过分计较琐细的或无关紧要的事物，如“斤斤计较”)。
②古代砍伐树木的工具：斧斤。Total strokes: 4;
Radical: 斤 Character Formation:
- ⿸ Surround from upper left
- 厂 [ chǎng ] cliff; factory, workshop; building
- 下 [ xià ] below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Example Words:
半斤八两 [
bàn jīn bā liǎng ]: not much to choose between the two; tweedledum and tweedledee
市斤 [
shì jīn ]: Chinese unit of weight equal to 0.5 kg
Example Sentences- 这些苹果有6斤重，我们对半分吧。
The apples weigh six jin. Let's take them fifty-fifty.
- 这个瓜怕有十几斤吧。
This melon weighs more than ten jin, I should think.
- 他害了一场大病，体重掉了十多斤。
During his serious illness he lost over ten jin.
- 的确，我以前从未听到过“斤”这个字。
Indeed I had never heard the word ‘jin’ before.
- 约三周前，在江西我们遇到一个人用扁担挑着60斤大米，他带我们看了他的家产，在那儿我们了解到有关红军的一个小故事。
Almost three weeks ago, we met a man in Jiangxi carrying 60 jin of rice on a shoulder pole. He showed us around his property,swhereswe learned a little Red Army folklore.
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