利錢

Chinese

	advantage; benefit; profit advantage; benefit; profit; sharp	coin; money
trad. (利錢)	利	錢
simp. (利钱)	利	钱
anagram	錢利／钱利

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): lìqián

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ni⁴ qian²
Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶ cin⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): lé-cièng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): li⁴ zing²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lī-chîⁿ / lāi-chîⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lìqián → lìqian (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ → ㄌㄧˋ ˙ㄑㄧㄢ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lìciån
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴-chʻien⁵
  - Yale: lì-chyan
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih.chyan
  - Palladius: лицянь (licjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/ → /li⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: ni⁴ qian²
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: likian
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni²¹³ t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lei⁶ cin⁴
  - Yale: leih chìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶ tsin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶ qin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²² t͡sʰiːn²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lé-cièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃i²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡s-)ʒieŋ⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: li⁴ zing² [Phonetic: li⁴ ling²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: li̍-cíng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁴² ^(t͡s-)liŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: li⁴ zing² [Phonetic: li¹ ling²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡s-)liŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-chîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: lī-tsînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixcvii
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹⁻²² t͡sĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²⁻²¹ t͡sĩ¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ t͡sĩ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi-chîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: lāi-tsînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: laixcvii
  - IPA (Taipei): /lai³³⁻¹¹ t͡sĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lai⁴¹⁻²² t͡sĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lai³³⁻²¹ t͡sĩ²³/

Noun

利錢

(finance) interest (on an investment)

Synonyms

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利仔錢 / 利仔钱 (Hokkien)
利子 (lìzi) (dated)
利息 (lìxī)
利鈿 / 利钿 (⁶li-di) (Wu)
利錁 / 利锞 (Puxian Min)
子金 (zǐjīn) (literary)
子錢 / 子钱 (zǐqián) (historical)
息金 (xījīn) (literary)
息錢 / 息钱 (si⁶ zienn²) (Xiang)
錢利 / 钱利 (cièng-*lé) (Eastern Min)
錢息 / 钱息 (cièng-sék) (Eastern Min)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “利钱”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 358.