xīn
薪 (xīn) is a Chinese word meaning “(literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary”.
Meanings
- 1(literary) firewood; fuel
- 2(bound form) salary
Related words
薪水salary加薪to raise salary高薪high salary年薪annual salary薪金salary周薪weekly salary薪资salary杯水车薪lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure工薪阶层salaried class卧薪尝胆lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)卧薪尝胆variant of 臥薪嘗膽|卧薪尝胆[wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3]月薪monthly income (in kind)