千金

千金

Chinese

		thousand	metal; gold; money
simp. and trad. (千金)		千	金
Literally: “a thousand pieces of gold”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiānjīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ gam¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiên-kîm
• Min Nan (POJ): chhian-kim

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiānjīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cianjin
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹-chin¹
    • Yale: chyān-jīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chianjin
    • Palladius: цяньцзинь (cjanʹczinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹ gam¹
    • Yale: chīn gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ kɐm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiên-kîm
    • Hakka Romanization System: qien´ gim´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qian¹ gim¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kim²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhian-kim
    • Tâi-lô: tshian-kim
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chienkym
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɛn³³ kim³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kim⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰen  kˠiɪm/

Rime
Character	千	金
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	蒼先切	居吟切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰen/	/kˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰen/	/kᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛn/	/kiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛn/	/kjim/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰen/	/kjəm/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰien/	/kĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰien/	/ki̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān	jīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cin1	gam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.n̥ˤi[ŋ]  k(r)[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sn̥ʰiːn  krɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	千	金
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiān	jīn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshen ›	‹ kim ›
Old Chinese	/*s.n̥ˁi[ŋ]/	/*k(r)[ə]m/
English	thousand	metal, bronze
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	千	金
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10792	6679
Phonetic component	人	金
Rime group	眞	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	千	金
Old Chinese	/*sn̥ʰiːn/	/*krɯm/
Notes	小徐人聲，甲文乃借人加一	說文今聲，俞敏依金文非之

Noun

千金

1. large amount of money; riches

   備急千金要方／备急千金要方  ―  bèijí qiānjīn yào fāng  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

2. (honorific) daughter (not of one's own)

Derived terms

Derived terms from 千金

一刻千金 (yīkèqiānjīn) 一字值千金 一字千金 (yīzìqiānjīn) 一曲千金 一笑千金 一言千金 一言已定，千金不移 千金一刻 千金一笑 千金之子 千金之子，坐不垂堂 千金之家 千金之裘，非一狐之腋 千金小姐 千金市骨 千金敝帚 千金笑 (qiānjīnxiào) 千金裘

千金要方 家有敝帚，享之千金 家累千金，坐不垂堂 弊帚千金 敝帚千金 (bìzhǒuqiānjīn) 春宵一刻值千金 一壺千金／一壶千金 一擲千金／一掷千金 (yīzhìqiānjīn) 一諾千金／一诺千金 (yīnuòqiānjīn) 一飯千金／一饭千金 千金一擲／千金一掷 千金一諾／千金一诺 千金記／千金记 千金買笑／千金买笑 千金買骨／千金买骨 千金軀／千金躯 千金難買少年窮／千金难买少年穷 (qiānjīn nán mǎi shàonián qióng) 家有千金，不如日進分文／家有千金，不如日进分文

Adjective

千金

1. (figurative) extremely precious

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (千金):

• → Japanese: 千金(せんきん) (senkin)
• → Korean: 천금(千金) (cheon'geum)
• → Vietnamese: thiên kim (千金)

References

• “Entry #379”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.