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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
- —銀行家banker; bank proprietor; bank manager
- —銀行業banking
- —銀河系Milky Way galaxy; Milky Way; the Galaxy; galactic system; galaxy
- —銀砂子silver powder
- —銀細工silverwork
- —一朱銀type of silver coin in the Edo period
- —銀交換exchange of silver generals
- —銀時計silver watch
- —銀灰色silver gray; silver grey
- —大銀行big bank
- —銀だらsablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable; blue cod; coal cod; coalfish; beshow; skil; skilfish
- —銀行印seal used for bank transactions
- —銀木犀tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans); fragrant olive; sweet olive
- —銀ぶらstrolling in Ginza
- —水銀剤mercurials (drugs containing mercury)
- —銀蜻蜓lesser emperor (Anax parthenope)
- —銀河群group of galaxies
- —銀河団cluster of galaxies
- —銀竜草Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
- —銀目鯛silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)