What different terms for money have there been throughout history?
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孔方兄
上清童子
Time period used too would be nice.
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Like:
孔方兄
上清童子
Time period used too would be nice.
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?