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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
- —燻銀oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
- —銀坑silver mine; silver ore
- —銀將silver general
- —銀鱈sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable; blue cod; coal cod; coalfish; beshow; skil; skilfish
- —銀蠅large silvery fly
- —銀眼steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
- —挺銀chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)
- —合銀handling fee; commission
- —銀餡thin starchy sauce
- —銀鯥Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
- —躾銀educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
- —一歩銀ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
- —銀ねずsilver gray; silver grey
- —燻し銀oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
- —銀ぱくsilver foil; silver leaf; beaten silver
- —銀ダラsablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable; blue cod; coal cod; coalfish; beshow; skil; skilfish
- —銀ブラstrolling in Ginza
- —銀鍍金silvering; silver-plating
- —銀バエlarge silvery fly
- —銀ザケcoho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutsh); silver salmon