中银 (Zhōngyín): Bank of China (BOC)

Meanings

1 Bank of China (BOC)
2 abbreviation of 中国银行

Characters

中

Examples

他在中银办理了一张外币账户。

Tā zài Zhōngyín bànlǐ le yì zhāng wàibì zhànghù.

He opened a foreign-currency account at Bank of China.

中银香港是香港三大发钞行之一。

Zhōngyín Xiānggǎng shì Xiānggǎng sān dà fāchāoháng zhī yī.

BOC Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong's three note-issuing banks.

Tips

history

Founded 1912 (originally the Qing-era 大清银行 reorganized under Sun Yat-sen), Bank of China is China's oldest continuously operating bank. Unique among the 'big four' state banks for its heavy foreign-exchange and international-trade focus — it handled most of the PRC's FX business from 1949-1979.

culture

The I.M. Pei-designed 中银大厦 (Bank of China Tower) in Hong Kong, completed 1990, is one of the city's most famous skyscrapers — its sharp angular design stirred feng shui controversy for 'pointing daggers' at neighboring buildings.