Kanji1 / 8
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
- —金鳩emerald dove (Chalcophaps indica)
- —金烏Sun
- —金漆lacquer made from the sap of Acanthopanax sciadophylloides
- —金胎unglazed metallic lacquerware
- —金鍔confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard); metal sword guard; polearm
- —労金workers' credit union; labour credit association
- —金文Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties
- —当金on-the-spot payment
- —金座Edo-period gold mint
- —金毛golden fur; yellow hair
- —金円money
- —金鮒Carassius buergeri
- —水金liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.); Wednesday and Friday; bribe; sweetener; douceur
- —金梅winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum); Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)
- —住金housing finance
- —試金assay (of metal, ore, etc.); assaying
- —金時red; red kidney bean; sweet potato (any of a number of different cultivars with red skin); bowl of shaved ice with boiled adzuki beans
- —金性purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt; personality of a person born under the element of metal
- —金位fineness of gold; purity of gold
- —細金metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs; cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)