孔方兄
kǒng​fāng​xiōng

money

  • created reference approved 孔方兄 → 钱/錢 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    孔方兄 kǒng​fāng​xiōng

    钱 / 錢 qián

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 孔方兄 · kǒng​fāng​xiōng · money — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    孔方兄

    kǒng​fāng​xiōng

    money

    (humorous) a joking way to refer to money; refers to old Chinese copper coins which had a square hole in the center

    孔 (literal) → 孔 · kǒng · hole 方 (literal) → 方 · fāng · square 兄 (literal) → 兄 · xiōng · older male friend

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense