HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Numbers

斤 jīn “jin (unit of weight” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 斤 means

  1. jin (unit of weight, 500 g)
  2. catty
  3. (PRC) weight equal to 500 g
  4. (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g

How to say 斤

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale斤jīn1st tone, high and level

斤 in a sentence

  1. 喂，这橘子多少钱买一斤啊？

    Wéi, zhè júzi duōshǎo qián mǎi yì jīn a?

    Hey, how much is a jin of these oranges?

    Sentence #420732 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 行了！就十元买五斤吧。

    Xíng le! Jiù shí yuán mǎi wǔ jīn ba.

    All right! Ten yuan for five jin, then.

    Sentence #420742 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 一斤四元五毛，便宜得不得了！

    Yì jīn sì yuán wǔ máo, piányi de bùdéliǎo!

    Four yuan fifty a jin – that’s incredibly cheap!

    Sentence #420276 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 斤 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 斤 (jīn) with each of its parts in a different colour
斤jīncatty
  • 厂cliff · hǎn
  • 下below · xià

Memory aidDrawn from an axe. Today it is a unit of weight, half a kilo.

How to write 斤

斤 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 斤

Words with 斤

公斤gōngjīn · kilogram

More words: Numbers & Measure Words

一半yībàn · half间jiān · (measure word for rooms)名míng · name封fēng · (m.w. for letters好多hǎoduō · a lot of部bù · part

FAQs

斤 (jīn) means “jin (unit of weight, 500 g)” or “catty”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it jīn: jīn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 斤 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 斤 from the suggestions. Typing jin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
斤 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.