钞 — Chinese character
钞
chāo
bank note, paper money; to counterfeit
- Pinyin
- chāo
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 钅 少
- Formation
- pictophonetic — money; meaning component 钅; sound component 少
- Traditional
- 鈔
Common words with 钞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钞票 (鈔票) | chāo piào | paper money; a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) |
| 假钞 (假鈔) | jiǎ chāo | counterfeit money; forged note |
| 伪钞 (偽鈔) | wěi chāo | counterfeit currency |
| 运钞车 (運鈔車) | yùn chāo chē | armored car (for transporting valuables) |
| 纸钞 (紙鈔) | zhǐ chāo | banknote |
| 印钞机 (印鈔機) | yìn chāo jī | money printer |
| 验钞机 (驗鈔機) | yàn chāo jī | a device used to check money and detect counterfeit bills |
| 钱钞 (錢鈔) | qián chāo | money |
| 冥钞 (冥鈔) | míng chāo | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead |
| 破钞 (破鈔) | pò chāo | to spend money |
| 纪念钞 (紀念鈔) | jì niàn chāo | commemorative banknote |
| 钞能力 (鈔能力) | chāo néng lì | (coll.) wealth; financial clout (pun on 超能力 (chāo néng lì)) |
English words written with 钞
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.