Meaning of Ching | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.
   plural, plural-only
2. A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
   countable
3. Cocaine.
   Scotland, slang, uncountable
4. A surname from Cantonese.
5. A surname from Hokkien.
6. Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
   slang, uncountable
7. A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
   countable, uncountable
8. A knife.
   Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The hoe banged against a spade on the wall, making a loud "ching!"”

“"To predictions coming true," Riley agreed, touching her rim to his with a quiet ching of crystal.”

“Joseph gulped and drew his sword with a loud ching.”

“"Supposedly, it was worth millions back then, so it could be worth maybe ten times as much now." Tatorrio whistled. "That's a lot of ching."”

“If there are any people owing you money, it's a good time to drive to their houses and look for your "ching".”

“Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy / Hold onto your ching”

“If you know how to play your cards when buying, you can definitely save some ching here, especially on bigger ops.”

“I'll leave the message, but Simon's very much a free spirit, I state to the receiver as I use a fifty-pound note to hoover up some ching.”

“Then back again to merely scoring some ching and getting fucking wasted.”

“She said: "We were all drinking and snorting ching (cocaine). […]”

“General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.”

“Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.”

“More skillful farming practices, particularly in rice cultivation, were brought in after the Ching occupation in 1683.”

“Photographer Shawn Danker, who recently held a photo exhibition to generate awareness about Bukit Brown, cites as an example pre-independent Singapore’s links to the Nationalists who overthrew the Ching Dynasty in 1911.”

“Ellen was born in 1927 in Beijing, China, to a prominent Ching dynasty family of scholars and diplomats. Her grandmother on her father’s side was a niece of the Empress Dowager, and her grandfather on her mother’s side was the ambassador to the court of Queen Victoria of England.”

“At the end of Butler's military career, he goes back to China one more time and this is during sort of China's warlord period, the Qing Dynasty has been overthrown. Largely, they weren't helped by the fact that this invasion of which Butler took part in 1900 against the Boxer Rebellion happened, but the Ching Dynasty has fallen. There's fighting going on over control of China and this is the beginning of the Chinese Civil War, which is between the communists and the nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek.”

“China has never acknowledged the independence of Taiwan, which for 50 years prior to the end of World War II had been a colony of Japan, a spoil of victory in the China-Japan War won by Japan against the Ching dynasty in 1895.”

“Born in 1949, Shen was a descendant of Shen Pao-chen (沈葆楨), an official of the late Ching Dynasty who made a mark in Taiwan's history by pushing for Taiwan's modernization and the exploration of mountainous areas.”

“Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), was formerly part of the Chinese empire. However, under the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed between Japan and the Chinese Ching dynasty, Taiwan ceased being a part of China.”

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