漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
金: gold
今 gives the sound
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
キンkin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 金曜日きんようびFriday
- 金属きんぞくmetal
- 金髪きんぱつblond hair
- 金魚きんぎょgoldfish
- 金額きんがくamount of money
- 奨学金しょうがくきんscholarship
- 罰金ばっきんa fine
- 現金げんきんcash
- 預金するよきんするdeposit in a bank
コンkon · on'yomi
- 金色こんじき/きんいろgold colored
かねkane · kun'yomi · on its own
- お金おかねmoney
かな-kana- · kun'yomi
- 金物かなものhardware
Also read ゴン, -がね, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)
Semantic 士 or 王, + semantic 呂 (“two blocks of metal”) + phonetic 亼 (今). The blocks of metal were originally drawn as: and later as 丷.
Source: Wiktionary, 金 (rev. 94507195), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for precious metal and the fundamental unit of human wealth (money), also representing the "metal" day of the week.”
Connections
Also built on now (今)
金 takes the 今 family's reading, キン (kin).
Also read ゴン
7 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jīn
Same form: 金 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 金 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 金 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jīn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.