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金 kanji
gold
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
キンコンゴン
Kun readings
かねかな--がね
Words with 金
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —そうはイカの金玉you wish!; that's not going to happen; not a chance
- —金玉が縮み上がるto shrivel up in fear; to tremble in fear; one's testicles shrivel up
- —どじょう汁に金鍔two things that do not go well together; pairing kintsuba with loach soup
- —同一労働同一賃金(principle of) equal pay for equal work
- —金時の火事見舞いgoing bright red (esp. after drinking)
- —狸の金玉八畳敷きsomething spread out widely; something taking a lot of space; eight jō of a raccoon dog's scrotum
- —異次元の金融緩和unprecedented monetary easing (by the Bank of Japan in 2013)
- —水金地火木土天海(mnemonic for) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- —環境衛生金融公庫Environmental Sanitation Business Finance Corporation
- —京都中央信用金庫Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank
- —京都北都信用金庫Kyoto Hokuto Shinkin Bank
- —公営企業金融公庫Japan Finance Corporation for Municipal Enterprises
- —国民生活金融公庫National Life Finance Corporation
- —商工組合中央金庫Shoko Chukin Bank; Central Bank for Commercial and Industrial Associations
- —全国信用金庫協会National Association of Shinkin Banks
- —中小企業金融公庫Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise
- —日本政策金融公庫Japan Finance Corporation; JFC
- —農林漁業金融公庫Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Finance Corporation; AFC
- —世界自然保護基金World Wide Fund for Nature; WWF
- —世界野生生物基金World Wildlife Fund; WWF