斤

斤 (Kangxi radical 69, 斤+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹一中 (HML), four-corner 7222₁, composition ⿸𠂆丅 or ⿸𠂋丨)

1. Kangxi radical #69, ⽄.

• Appendix:Chinese_radical/斤
• 劤, 邤, 欣, 頎(颀), 䖐, 丘, 芹, 庍, 匠, 旂, 蘄(蕲)
• 伒, 听, 圻, 妡, 岓, 㠼, 忻, 折, 沂, 㹞, 近, 所, 昕, 析, 歽, 炘, 㸫, 肵, 祈, 盺, 䉼, 紤, 蚚, 訢(䜣), 赾, 釿(𬬱), 靳, 馸, 鬿, 䰺, 齗(龂)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 479, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13534
• Dae Jaweon: page 837, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2022, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65A4

Pictogram (象形) - an axe.

ax

Unclear. Matisoff (2000) relates it to Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gyan (“pickax”); possibly also connected to Proto-Hmong-Mien *cwI:m (“axe”), Proto-Tai *xwaːnᴬ (“axe”) and/or Proto-Kam-Sui *kwan (Schuessler, 2007).

斤

1. catty, a unit of weight
   1. (Mainland China) catty or jin, a traditional unit of weight, equal to 0.5 kilograms
   2. (Hong Kong) catty or kan, a traditional unit of weight, legally defined as equal to 0.60478982 kilograms (公斤 or sometimes approximated as 500 grams)
   3. (Taiwan) catty, a traditional unit of weight, equal to 0.6 kilograms, also equal to 16 taels
2. (archaic) axe; hatchet

   匠石運斤成風，聽而斫之。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
   匠石运斤成风，听而斫之。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

   From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Jiàng Shí yùn jīn chéng fēng, tīng ér zhuó zhī. [Pinyin]

   (The artisan) Shi whirled his axe so as to produce a wind, which immediately carried off the mud entirely.

3. keen; shrewd

• 擔／担 (dān), 兩／两 (liǎng), 錢／钱 (qián), 分 (fēn), 金衡兩／金衡两, 金衡錢／金衡钱, 金衡分
• 公斤 (gōngjīn), 克 (kè)
• 臺斤／台斤 (táijīn)

斤

1. only used in 斤斤 (jīnjīn)

• “斤”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)
• Kun: おの (ono, 斤)^{←をの (wono, 斤, historical)}

Derived from Middle Chinese 斤 (MC kj+n|kj+nH).

• (Tokyo) きん [kíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kʲĩɴ]

斤(きん) • (kin) 

1. (historical) catty; kin (weight)
   1. (chiefly Okinawa) catty, a unit of weight equaling approximately 600 grams, or a unit of volume equaling approximately 600 cubic centimeters

斤(きん) • (-kin) 

1. loaf of bread

   食(しょく)パン1斤(いっきん) ― shokupan ikkin ― 1 loaf of bread

斤 (eumhun 근 근 (geun geun))

1. hanja form^? of 근 (“catty”)
2. hanja form^? of 근 (“axe”)
3. hanja form^? of 근 (“keen, shrewd”)

斤: Hán Nôm readings: cân, rìu

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