(chēng) - to call, to name, to weigh in Mandarin
chēngTraditional: 稱
Translation
to call, to name, to weigh
Word origin
Originally a pictograph of a hand lifting and balancing a load, later written with the 禾 (grain) radical, giving both the sense of weighing and of naming.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- 禾 (hé, grain) + 爯 (lifting and balancing)
Stroke order
称
Examples
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Everyone calls him teacher.
苹。
Please weigh these apples for me.
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This city is known as the city of flowers.
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He calls himself an expert.
售货斤橘。
The shop assistant weighed out a kilo of oranges.
称 (chēng) means both to call or name something and to weigh it on a scale. The two senses share the original idea of holding something up to assess it.
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