HSK 6 · Objects

秤 chèng “scales” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 秤 means

  1. scales
  2. balance
  3. steelyard balance
  4. Roman balance

Measure word 台 tái · 一台秤 yì tái chèng

How to say 秤

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale秤chèng4th tone, falling

秤 in a sentence

  1. 请把你的行李放在这秤上。

    Qǐng bǎ nǐ de xíngli fàng zài zhè chèng shàng.

    Please put your luggage on these scales.

    Sentence #340642 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 秤 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 秤 (chèng) with each of its parts in a different colour
秤chèngsteelyard balance; Roman balance
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 平flat · píng

How to write 秤

秤 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

秤 (chèng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 秤 (chèng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

秤 (chèng) means “scales” or “balance”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chèng: chèng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 秤 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 台 (tái). For example, one scales is 一台秤 (yì tái chèng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 秤 from the suggestions. Typing cheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
秤 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.