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銀 kanji
silver
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ギン
Kun readings
しろがね
Words with 銀
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —銀塩silver salt; silver halide; film camera
- —銀賞silver prize; silver award; silver medal; second-place prize
- —銀鮫silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma)
- —銀宝tidepool gunnel (Pholis nebulosa)
- —軽銀aluminium; aluminum
- —銀蝿large silvery fly
- —長銀long-term credit bank; LTCB
- —中銀central bank
- —銀葉thin sheet of silver; silver foil; silverleaf; censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony; Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
- —銀鮭coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutsh); silver salmon
- —銀目Edo-period unit of silver coinage; steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
- —銀泥white poplar (Populus alba); abele
- —銀杏ginkgo nut; gingko nut
- —銀箭silver arrow
- —当銀on-the-spot payment
- —銀銭silver coin
- —銀面silver-plated chamfron
- —地銀regional bank
- —邦銀overseas Japanese bank
- —丁銀chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)