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Mythic Mandarin

黄金 (huáng jīn): meaning and stroke order

黄金 (huáng jīn) means gold, golden (opportunity), prime (time).

黄金

Simplified
黄金
Traditional
黃金
Pinyin
huáng jīn

Stroke order of 黄金

黄

  • Huáng surname Huang or Hwang
  • huáng yellow; pornographic
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 黃

Stroke by stroke

金

  • Jīn surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean)
  • jīn gold; chemical element Au
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 黄金

  1. huáng jīn Traditional 黃金
    • gold
    • golden (opportunity)
    • prime (time)

Radicals of the characters

黄
Radical 黃 (Kangxi radical 201) · 11 strokes
金
Radical 金 (Kangxi radical 167) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

黄金 in our stories

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  • 丝绸之所以能在丝绸之路上卖出像黄金一样高的价钱，正是因为别的国家根本不知道它是怎么做出来的。

    sīchóu zhīsuǒyǐ néng zài Sīchóu zhī Lù shàng mài chū xiàng huángjīn yíyàng gāo de jiàqian zhèngshì yīnwèi biéde guójiā gēnběn bù zhīdao tā shì zěnme zuò chūlai de

    The reason silk could fetch prices as high as gold along the Silk Road was precisely that other countries had no idea how it was made.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 黄金

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).