秤 (chèng)
steelyard; scale; balance
How 秤 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 禾 — grain
- Traditional
- 秤
- Simplified
- 秤 (unchanged)
Components
- 禾 grain
- 干 dry
- 丷 eight/divide
Common words using 秤
- 天秤座 tiānchèngzuò
- Libra (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 天秤 tiānchèng
- Libra (star sign)
- 桿秤 gǎnchèng
- a steelyard (a type of balance)
- 磅秤 bàngchèng
- scale; platform balance
- 秤槃 chèngpán
- the tray or pan of a steelyard
- 秤砣 chèngtuó
- steelyard weight; standard weight
秤 in a sentence
請把水果放在秤上量一下重量。
Qǐng bǎ shuǐguǒ fàngzài chèng shàng liáng yīxià zhòngliàng.
“Please put the fruit on the scale to weigh it.”
How common is 秤?
秤 is the 3,728th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.7% of all running text.
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