HSK 2 · Shopping & money

斤

jīn

jin (half a kilogram)

Stroke order of 斤

斤 is written with 4 strokes. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

Memory trick

An axe head with a handle: chopping and weighing wood on an old scale.

Parts: pictograph of an axe

Example sentence

我买了两斤苹果。

I bought two jin of apples.

Words with 斤

More words: Shopping & money

卖to sell 便宜cheap 收入income 角jiao (1/10 yuan); angle 千thousand 万ten thousand 亿hundred million 公斤kilogram 千克kilogram 克gram 公里kilometre 租to rent 打工to do odd jobs; to work part-time

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