Keyword
salary
- fuel
- firewood
- Frequency
- #1746
- Strokes
- 16
Readings
xīn
Mnemonic
Freshly-cut 新 wood 艹; 新 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
薪水
salary; wage
月薪
monthly income (in kind)
薪资
salary
薪酬
pay; remuneration; salary; reward
加薪
to raise salary
年薪
annual salary
薪
(literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary
高薪
high salary
薪金
salary; wage
带薪
to receive one's regular salary (while on vacation, study leave etc); paid (leave); on full pay
卧薪尝胆
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾践 (Gōujiàn), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom); (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge
工薪阶层
salaried class
欠薪
to owe wages; back pay; wages arrears
减薪
to cut wages
时薪
hourly wage
底薪
basic salary; base pay; salary floor
杯水车薪
lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure
薪俸
salary; pay
釜底抽薪
to take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb
日薪
daily wage
薪火相传
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom); fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
周薪
weekly salary
讨薪
to seek unpaid wages
发薪
to pay wages or salary