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钱 — coin; money

coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]

Pinyin
qián · Qián
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — qián, Qián — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 钱: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

钱 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 钱

Words with 钱 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 钱qiáncoin; moneyHSK 1
  2. 价钱jiàqiánpriceHSK 4
  3. 零花钱línghuāqiánpocket money; allowanceHSK 4
  4. 零钱língqiánchange; small change; pocket moneyHSK 4
  5. 压岁钱yāsuìqiánmoney given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's EveHSK 5
  6. 金钱jīnqiánmoney; currencyHSK 6
  7. 本钱běnqiáncapital; asset; advantage; the meansHSK 7–9
  8. 钱财qiáncáiwealth; moneyHSK 7–9
  9. 值钱zhíqiánvaluable; costly; expensiveHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.