china
🇵🇪 Spanish slang from Peru
What does “china” mean?
a 50-céntimo coin
Example
“Dame una china para el caramelo.”
Give me fifty céntimos for the sweet.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: cincuenta céntimos
More from Peru
- cachueloside job, gig
- misiobroke
- hacer chanchato chip in, to pool money
- cachuelearto do odd jobs on the side
- por recibosas a freelancer (billing with receipts)
- sencillosmall change
- lucaone sol (Peru’s currency)
- estar agujato be broke
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