Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
silver
Kun:
しろがね
On:
ギン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
395 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 銀 【ギン】 silver (Ag), silver coin, money, silver medal, silver colour, silver color, bank, silver general
  • 銀色 【ギンイロ】 silver (color, colour)
  • 世銀 【セギン】 World Bank
  • 水銀 【スイギン】 mercury (Hg)

Kun reading compounds

  • 銀 【ぎん】 silver (Ag), silver coin, money, silver medal, silver colour, silver color, bank, silver general
  • 銀鯵 【しろがねあじ】 lookdown (Selene vomer)

Readings

Japanese names:
うん、 かな、 かね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin2
Korean:
eun

Spanish

  • plata

Portuguese

  • prata

French

  • argent
196 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
281 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
263 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
264 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4855 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
379 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
268 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2345 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
313 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
313 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
57 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1817 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2156 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1534 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1471 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40355 Morohashi
1722 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6268 New Nelson (John Haig)
1459 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1569 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
427 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2865 2001 Kanji
8a6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8713.2 Four corner code
1-22-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9280 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 弓箭 【キュウセン】 bow and arrow, arms, weapons, archer, warrior, fighting with bows and arrows, war, battle
  • 火矢 【ヒヤ】 fire arrow, incendiary arrow, rocket

Kun reading compounds

  • 矢 【や】 arrow, wedge, chock
  • 矢竹 【やだけ】 bamboo arrow shaft, arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica)
  • 弓矢 【ゆみや】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 大矢 【おおや】 long arrow, person who can fire a long arrow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3419 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2397 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
26193X Morohashi
4325 New Nelson (John Haig)
2636 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2680 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8822.1 Four corner code
1-32-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bad Unicode hex code