Definitions
Etymology
Pictograph of an adze for carving wood.
About
The character 斤 originated as a pictogram of an axe or adze, depicting its blade and handle. While it functions as a radical in characters related to cutting, the character itself was later borrowed to represent a traditional unit of weight, a catty. This likely occurred because axes of a standardized size were once used as weights in trade. Today, its primary independent meaning is a unit of mass, equal to half a kilogram in the modern system.
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这条鱼重三斤。
我买了五斤苹果。
西瓜一斤多少钱？
苹果每斤五块钱。
昨天晚上我买了三斤排骨。
做这道汤需要一斤冬瓜。
如果便宜点，我就买十斤。
请帮我把这些土豆称一下，看看有几斤。