杆秤

桿秤
gǎnchèng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 steelyard
  2. 2 hand-held beam scale

Examples

HSK 4
Xiànzài càishìchǎng lǐ yòng gǎnchèng de rén yuèláiyuè shǎo le.
Fewer and fewer people at the market use a steelyard nowadays.
HSK 5
Tā yòng gǎnchèng chēng le yíxià zhè dài mǐ, zhènghǎo shí jīn.
He weighed the bag of rice on the steelyard: exactly ten jin.

Tips

culture
A steelyard has a beam, the 秤杆, and a weight that slides along it, the 秤砣. The saying 心里有杆秤 'to have a steelyard in one's heart' means to know very well what is fair; there 杆 is the measure word for 秤.

Stroke Order

杆 gān
秤 chèng