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銀 kanji
silver
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
ギン
Kun readings
しろがね
Words with 銀
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —中銀総裁governor of a central bank
- —投資銀行investment bank
- —銀竜草擬Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
- —銀山猿子pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)
- —銀板写真daguerreotype; daguerrotype
- —ヨウ化銀silver iodide
- —銀頬蜜吸little wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)
- —活動銀河active galaxy
- —渦巻銀河spiral galaxy
- —渦状銀河spiral galaxy
- —電波銀河radio galaxy
- —金銀泥絵painting made with gold or silver paint (usu. on a dark background)
- —大手銀行major bank; big bank
- —普通銀行commercial bank; ordinary bank; ordinary commercial bank
- —銀行割引banker's discount; bank discount
- —貯蓄銀行savings bank
- —日銀短観Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan (Bank of Japan's quarterly economic survey); Tankan survey
- —帝銀事件Teigin Bank robbery (in which 12 people died of cyanide poisoning; 1948)
- —銀行振込bank transfer
- —水銀圧入mercury intrusion; mercury penetration; mercury porosimetry