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纹银
wén​yín

fine silver

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
纹银 紋銀 wén​yín
fine silver
A type of high-purity silver used as a standard currency in imperial China, typically cast in the shape of a horse's hoof and characterized by wrinkles on its surface.

Frequency

Written text
0.179 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 块 kuài

Same as

  • 马蹄银 mǎ​tí​yín

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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