small steelyard; balance
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Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
small steelyard (for weighing money, medicine, etc.); portable balance
dialectRefers to a traditional small balance scale, often used in pharmacies to weigh medicinal herbs or in shops to weigh silver. The term is dialectal and somewhat old-fashioned.
Zhōng中
yào药
pù铺
de的
guì柜
tái台
shàng上
zǒng总
fàng放
zhe着
yī一
bǎ把
děng戥
zi子
。
A small steelyard always sits on the counter of the traditional medicine shop.
Zhǎng掌
guì柜
de的
yòng用
děng戥
zi子
chēng称
le了
chēng称
nà那
kuài块
suì碎
yín银
zi子
。
The shopkeeper weighed that piece of broken silver using the steelyard.
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Zhè这
bǎ把
lǎo老
děng戥
zi子
shì是
tā他
zǔ祖
fù父
liú留
xià下
lái来
de的
。
This old steelyard was handed down from his grandfather.