xīn fèng

薪俸 (xīn fèng) is a Chinese word meaning “salary; pay”.

Meanings

  1. 1salary
  2. 2pay

Characters in 薪俸

薪xīn · (literary) firewood; fuel俸fèng · (bound form) salary; stipend

Related words

薪水salary薪(literary) firewood; fuel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]

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