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
- —金針gold needle (esp. an acupuncture needle)
- —金針gold hook (esp. for fishing); gold-colored hook
- —鍛金hammering
- —着金arrival of remitted funds
- —金龍golden dragon
- —金満being rich; having plenty of money; wallowing in money
- —金鉱gold ore; gold deposit; gold mine
- —金葉gold leaf
- —金土Friday and Saturday
- —金閣golden pavilion
- —金盾Golden Shield Project; Chinese network-security project which operates the Great Firewall of China
- —青金green gold
- —赤金red gold
- —金地gold paper; gold cloth; ground of gold (e.g. on folding screen)
- —金欲lust for money; hunger for money
- —金光golden light
- —本金pure gold; capital stock; liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
- —金札golden label; golden protective talisman; kinsatsu (Edo-period paper money); kinsatsu (early Meiji-period paper money); golden tablet belonging to Yama that is inscribed with the names of souls to be sent to paradise
- —金鵄golden kite (which landed on the tip of Emperor Jimmu's bow after he had defeated Nagasunehiko)
- —金蘭golden orchid (Cephalanthera falcata); kinran; very close friendship