薪 (xīn)
salary/firewood
How 薪 is written
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 薪
- Simplified
- 薪 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 立 stand erect
- 十 ten
- 小 small
- 斤 axe
Common words using 薪
- 年薪 niánxīn
- annual salary
- 月薪 yuèxīn
- monthly income (in kind)
- 加薪 jiāxīn
- raise salary
- 薪水 xīnshuǐ
- salary; wage
- 薪酬 xīnchóu
- pay; remuneration; salary
- 高薪 gāoxīn
- high salary
- 帶薪 dàixīn
- to receive one's regular salary (while on vacation, study leave etc); paid (leave); on full pay
- 底薪 dǐxīn
- basic salary; base pay; salary floor
- 杯水車薪 bēishuǐchēxīn
- lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure
- 欠薪 qiànxīn
- to owe wages; back pay; wages arrears
- 減薪 jiǎnxīn
- to cut wages
- 發薪 fāxīn
- to pay wages or salary
薪 in a sentence
這份工作的薪水很高。
Zhè fèn gōngzuò de xīnshuǐ hěn gāo.
“The salary for this job is very high.”
How common is 薪?
薪 is the 2,162nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.7% of all running text.
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