漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
銀: silver
JLPT N414 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
金 carries the meaning · 艮 gives the sound
14 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ギンgin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 銀行ぎんこうbank
- 銀河ぎんがgalaxy
- 銀色ぎんいろsilver color
- 水銀すいぎんmercury
- 銀ぎんsilver (Ag)
- 銀座ぎんざ
- 世銀せぎんWorld Bank
- 輸銀ゆぎんimport-export bank
Also read しろがね, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)金 metal (meaning) + 艮 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 銀 (rev. 92676255), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Metal (金) + limit/boundary (艮). A prestigious metal that sits "next" to gold and marks the distinct "boundary" of luxury—now the root of the word for "bank."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 艮 family reads コン (kon); 銀 is read ギン.
Also read ギン
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 银 · traditional, as in Japanese · yín
Japan keeps the traditional form 銀; mainland China simplifies it to 银.
- Simplified
- 银 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 銀 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yín most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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