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金 kanji
gold
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
キンコンゴン
Kun readings
かねかな--がね
Words with 金
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —木金Thursday and Friday
- —と金promoted pawn
- —陰金ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris
- —金器article made of gold; gold plate
- —金紗silk crepe
- —沈金gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
- —金賞gold prize; gold award; gold medal; first-place prize
- —金運economic fortune; luck with money
- —金パblond hair; blonde hair
- —金団mashed sweet potatoes (incl. sweetened chestnuts or beans)
- —金衡troy weight (e.g. troy ounce, troy pound)
- —金包envelope containing betrothal money and given as part of a betrothal gift
- —金目Edo-period unit of gold coinage; golden eyes (of a cat, etc.); splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)
- —花金Friday (when one feels excited about the weekend)
- —金鑞alloy of gold, silver, copper, zinc, cadmium, etc., used to fuse items of gold
- —特金corporate investment fund
- —金腹chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla); black-headed munia
- —街金loan shark; high-interest consumer finance firm
- —採金gold mining; extraction of gold
- —断金(in Japan) 2nd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp)