Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 秤

79E4

 
balance, scale, steelyard
Radical 𥝌
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading chèng chēng chèn píng Cantonese reading cing1 cing3
Japanese on reading shou Japanese kun reading hakari
Korean reading ching Vietnamese reading xứng
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ chèng gǎn ]    the beam of a steelyard, a balance arm
   [ chèng pán ]    the tray or pan of a steelyard
   [ chèng tuó suī qiān jīn ]    although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds (idiom), apparently insignificant details can have a large impact, for want of a nail the battle was lost
   [ chèng goū ]    steelyard hook
   [ chèng chuí ]    steelyard weights
⇒    [ tán huáng chèng ]    spring balance
⇒    [ gǎn chèng ]    a steelyard (a type of balance)
⇒    [ pán chèng ]    balance consisting of steelyard with a pan, CL:臺|台[tai2]

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