The story of 金

gold, money

金 depicts the process of forging an axe. In ancient China, 金 can represent all kinds of metals, as people understood more, they started to categorise metals and created new characters such as 銅, 鐵 and 銀, 金 then only means gold which is the most expensive metal, and also means money.

Vocabulary of 金

  • 金屬 (metal)
  • 金色 (goden colour)
  • 現金 (cash)

Classification

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