銀 — silver | MojiMori

ぎん銀 silver

ぎん

U+9280 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #395 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1569 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

silver

Readings

On'yomi: ぎん gin
Kun'yomi: しろがね shirogane

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ぎん gin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

銀(ぎん) gin silver 銀(ぎん) 行(こう) ginkou bank 日(にち) 銀(ぎん) nichigin Bank of Japan 日(に) 本(ほん) 銀(ぎん) 行(こう) nihonginkou Bank of Japan ゆうちょ銀(ぎん) 行(こう) yuuchoginkou JP Bank (former Postal Savings Bank, created when the Postal Services were privatized) 世(せ) 界(かい) 銀(ぎん) 行(こう) sekaiginkou World Bank 銀(ぎん) 紙(がみ) gingami aluminum foil 銀(ぎん) 色(いろ) giniro silver (color, colour)

Words by frequency and grade

12 words

Each dot is a word containing 銀: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 6 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

おかね金 gold #167

艮 stopping

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#167 金 metal