What different terms for money have there been throughout history?
Like:
孔方兄
上清童子
Time period used too would be nice.
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没奈何 is an awesome way to refer to money: "necessary evil" lol. – Master Sparkles Apr 11 '15 at 16:11
阿堵物 -"that stuff"-was popular during the 晉 period and remained a literary way to refer to money. Source: 世說新語. Interestingly I think a close variant of 阿堵 to mean "that" is still used I believed in 閩南語？
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excellent question- I have no idea. Taiwanese people say something like "ah-nei" when they mean 那樣, and the ah-那 map seems similar to how 阿堵 means "that", so I guess a1, but I'm assuming a lot and working off memory right now. On reflection maybe the nei is what maps to 那. Spoken language is annoying. – Master Sparkles Apr 9 '15 at 9:43
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