yín běn wèidictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
silver standard (monetary system)
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Original source entry:

銀本位 银本位 [yin2 ben3 wei4] /silver standard (monetary system)/

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Other forms in these source records: 銀本位

  • 银
    yín

    silver / silver-colored / relating to money or currency

  • 本
    běn

    (bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

  • 位
    wèi

    position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

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