金
jīn HSK3

metal

金 jīn
money noun
money; currency; funds
gold noun
gold; the chemical element Au; specifically 金子 jīn​zi or 黄金 huáng​jīn

那位巫婆试图把铁变成金。

nà wèi wū​pó shì​tú bǎ tiě biàn chéng jīn.

The witch tried to change iron into gold.

metal noun
a generic term for metals; metallic substances
golden adjective
golden-colored; like the color of gold

鹅每天都为老夫妇下一个金蛋。

é měi​tiān dōu wèi lǎo fū​fù xià yī​ge jīn dàn.

Every day the goose laid a golden egg for the old couple.

precious noun
precious; noble; durable; highly respected
metal (Five Elements) nounproper noun
one of the five elements (五行 wǔ​xíng) in traditional Chinese cosmology, associated with the west and autumn
Jin dynasty
the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Jin
a common Chinese surname; also a Korean surname (Kim)
[ancient instrument]
(bound form) ancient metal percussion instruments, such as gongs or bells; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments (八音 bā​yīn)
Venus
(astronomy) Venus (金星 jīn​xīng)
firm
firm; strong; indestructible; as in 金城汤池 jīn​chéng​tāng​chí
radical
the 167th of the 214 Kangxi radicals, often simplified on the left side of a character

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Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
260th most common 867.7 per million
Movie subtitles
365th most common 410.1 per million appears in 71% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
73.0 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
247.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+91D1

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)