零钱通

零錢通

língqiántōng

noun

Meanings

1 LingQianTong (WeChat Pay money-market fund)
2 interest-earning balance feature in WeChat Wallet

Characters

zero, fractional

to connect, through

Examples

HSK 5

零钱通可以随时取出来用。

Língqiántōng kěyǐ suíshí qǔchū lái yòng.

You can withdraw money from LingQianTong anytime.

HSK 6

我把工资转到零钱通吃点利息。

Wǒ bǎ gōngzī zhuǎn dào língqiántōng chī diǎn lìxí.

I transfer my salary into LingQianTong to earn a bit of interest.

Tips

culture

Tencent's answer to Alipay's 余额宝. Parks your WeChat balance in a money-market fund while keeping it instantly spendable via WeChat Pay. 零钱 = loose change, 通 = connected/through - literally 'loose-change pipe'.

Stroke Order

零 líng

钱 qián

通 tōng