Kanji1 / 14
銭 kanji
coin, .01 yen, money
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
センゼン
Kun readings
ぜにすき
Variant forms
錢Words with 銭
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —私鋳銭private coinage
- —六道銭six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)
- —富本銭fuhonsen; Japan's first coinage dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation
- —永楽銭Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)
- —バラ銭coins; small change
- —金銭的monetary; financial; pecuniary
- —投げ銭tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar); tossed coin; (online) tipping; tip; donation
- —スパ銭large bathhouse with many different services; deluxe public bath
- —一文銭one-mon coin
- —鵝眼銭round coin with a (square) hole in the center
- —六文銭crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)
- —上げ銭commission; brokerage; wages; fee for a prostitute or geisha
- —金銭運luck with money
- —一紙半銭small sum; things of little value
- —小遣い銭pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
- —無銭飲食dine and dash; leaving a restaurant without paying
- —無銭遊興merrymaking without paying
- —無銭旅行hitchhiking
- —金銭信託cash or money trust
- —古銭学者numismatist