- (in India) a banker or money-changer.
- (in East Asia, especially China) a local expert employed to test the purity of a coin’s metal content, especially silver or gold.
- to test (coins) to ascertain the purity of the metal content, especially silver or gold.
- (in China, Japan, etc, esp formerly) an expert employed to separate counterfeit money or base coin from the genuine
- (in India) a moneychanger or banker
- to test (money) and separate out the counterfeit and base
