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斤 (jīn): catty

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HSK 3classifier

Character info

Pinyin
Meaning: catty
Characters: 1
Part of speech: classifier
HSK level: HSK 3
Strokes: 4
Radical: 斤
Structure: 独体结构

Full definitions

catty
(PRC) weight equal to 500 g
(Tw) weight equal to 600 g
(HK
catty
a traditional Chinese unit of weight (PRC: 500 g
Taiwan: 600 g
Hong Kong: approx. 604.8 g)
classifier for weight measured in jin
axe
adze (as a radical or in ancient texts)

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Example sentences

This bag of apples weighs five jin.

I bought one jin of pork.

He sold three jin of fish at the market.

One jin is equal to five hundred grams.

I bought three jin of apples.

This watermelon weighs five jin.

He exercises every day and lost two jin of body weight.

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