1, vis-à-vis is a Chinese character, pronounced chéng, left-right structure, the original meaning is pure metal (such as pure gold, pure silver, pure copper, pure iron, etc.), derived meaning pure copper or pure iron made of ceremonial weapons.

2, vis-à-vis is a form of the word, from gold from into, into also sound. "Cheng" means "100 percent", "completely". The combination of "Jin" and "Cheng" means "pure metal".