錢莊
qiánzhuāng
ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄤ
Simplified 钱庄
- 1old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949)
- 2(in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal