货币 huòbì currency
currency; monetary; money
How to remember 货币: 货 products + 币 currency = currency.
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How it is used
- Currency / money in the economic sense - 数字货币 (shùzì huòbì) digital currency.
- The formal term for money as a medium of exchange: 货币政策 (huòbì zhèngcè) monetary policy, 外国货币 foreign currency.
- Contrast 钱 (qián, money you spend) and 现金 (cash); 货币 is the economics/finance abstraction.