Bank in Chinese (Mandarin): 银行 (yínháng)
银行
yínháng
bank
- Simplified
- 银行
- Traditional
- 銀行
- Pinyin
- yínháng
- Typed as
- yinhang
Use it in a sentence
爸爸去银行存钱。
爸爸去銀行存錢。
Dad goes to the bank to save money.
The characters in 银行
银 / 銀
Silver. 钅 (metal) is on the left.
11 strokes
行
A business; read xíng, it means to go.
6 strokes
银行 is a "silver business", from the days when money was silver. 行 is read háng here, but xíng in 自行车 (bicycle).
More examples with 银行
银行在商店旁边。
銀行在商店旁邊。
Yínháng zài shāngdiàn pángbiān.
The bank is next to the store.
我把钱存进银行。
我把錢存進銀行。
Wǒ bǎ qián cún jìn yínháng.
I put my money in the bank.
How to write 银行 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
银 11 strokes
行 6 strokes
In Traditional characters:
銀 14 strokes
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