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Trad. 撈錢
- lit. to dredge for money
- to make money by reprehensible means
- to fish for a quick buck
Trad. 找錢
- to give change
- to seek funding
- (dialect) to make money; to earn a living
Trad. 熱錢
- hot money, money flowing from one currency to another in the hope of quick profit
Trad. 散錢
- small sum of money
- loose change
- Cantonese equivalent of 零錢|零钱[ling2 qian2]
Trad. 大錢
- large sum of money
- old Chinese type of coin of high denomination
Trad. 銅錢
- copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
Trad. 新錢
- newly minted coin; freshly printed banknote
- fresh capital; new investment funds
- (coll.) new money; recently acquired wealth; (by metonymy) the nouveau riche
Trad. 圈錢
- (coll.) (neologism c. 2006) to extract money unscrupulously (e.g. through IPOs, fandom, or game mechanics) while offering little genuine value; to grift; to fleece
Trad. 定錢
- security deposit; earnest money (real estate); good-faith deposit
Trad. 湊錢
- to raise enough money to do sth
- to pool money
- to club together (to do sth)
Trad. 錢皮
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920-2016), president of Italy 1999-2006
Trad. 錢莊
- old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949)
- (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
Trad. 錢鍾書
- Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城[Wei2 cheng2]
Trad. 買路錢
- money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll
- (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
Trad. 方孔錢
- round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China
Trad. 搖錢樹
- legendary tree that sheds coins when shaken
- (fig.) source of easy money
Trad. 賠錢貨
- unprofitable goods; item that can only be sold at a loss
- daughter (so called in former times because daughters required a dowry when they married)
Trad. 壓歲錢
- money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
Trad. 錢串子
- string of copper coins (in ancient China)
- (fig.) an overly money-oriented person
- (zoology) centipede
Trad. 錢其琛
- Qian Qichen (1928-2017), former Chinese vice premier
Trad. 有本錢
- to be in a position to (take on a challenge etc)
Trad. 錢塘江
- Qiantang River, the principal river of Zhejiang Province, eastern China, flowing through Hangzhou and into Hangzhou Bay, noted for its spectacular tidal bore 錢塘潮|钱塘潮[Qian2 tang2 chao2]
Trad. 錢塘潮
- tidal bore of the Qiantang River 錢塘江|钱塘江[Qian2 tang2 Jiang1] in Zhejiang
Trad. 錢學森
- Qian Xuesen (1911-2009), Chinese scientist and aeronautical engineer
Trad. 錢永健
- Roger Yonchien Tsien (1952-), US Chinese chemist and 2008 Nobel laureate
Trad. 浪費金錢
- to squander money
- to spend extravagantly
Trad. 花錢受氣
- (idiom) to have a bad experience as a customer
- to encounter poor service
Trad. 多錢善賈
- much capital, good business (idiom); fig. good trading conditions
Trad. 有錢有閑
- to have money and time
- to be part of the leisure class
- the idle rich
Trad. 一錢不值
- not worth a penny; utterly worthless
Trad. 地下錢莊
- underground bank
- illegal private bank
- loan shark
Trad. 金錢掛帥
- caring only about money and wealth
Trad. 金錢萬能
- money is omnipotent (idiom)
- with money, you can do anything
- money talks
Trad. 四出文錢
- coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝[Han4 Ling2 Di4], with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文)
Trad. 見錢眼開
- to open one's eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom); thinking of nothing but personal gain
- money-grubbing
Trad. 錢可通神
- with money, you can do anything (idiom)
- money talks
Trad. 錢能通神
- money is all-powerful
- money can move God
Trad. 花錢找罪受
- to spend money on sth that turns out to be unsatisfactory or even disastrous
Trad. 一切向錢看
- to put money above everything else
Trad. 一分錢一分貨
- you get what you pay for
Trad. 一分錢兩分貨
- high quality at bargain price
Trad. 有錢能使鬼推磨
- lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom)
- fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
Trad. 錢多事少離家近
- lots of money, less work, and close to home
- ideal job
Trad. 身體是革命的本錢
- lit. the body is the revolution's capital
- fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)
Trad. 一手交錢，一手交貨
- lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
- fig. to pay for what you want in cash
- simple and direct transaction