钧 jūn unit of weight equal to thirty catties
怎么记住“钧”: 钅 gold + 匀 equal = unit of weight equal to thirty catties. At the market the gold trader puts two equal sacks on his scale, and each weighs exactly one unit of weight equal to thirty catties.
部件结构
钧 = 钅 gold + 匀 equal
- 钅 gold
- 匀 equal
At the market the gold trader puts two equal sacks on his scale, and each weighs exactly one unit of weight equal to thirty catties.
用法
- An old weight unit (30 catties), alive today only in 千钧一发 (qiānjūn-yífà) 'a thousand catties hanging by a single hair' = a critical, hair's-breadth moment: 在千钧一发之际 (zài qiānjūn-yífà zhī jì) at the crucial split second.
- Also a formal honorific in old correspondence (钧鉴 for a respected addressee), now archaic.
- You essentially only need it for that one idiom.