銀 – silver

14 strokesTaught in grade 3#395 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 銀 means silver. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ギン (gin); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is しろがね (shirogane). It is written with 14 strokes, under radical 金 (no. 167).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ギン	gin
Kun’yomi	しろがね	shirogane

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 金 (Kangxi radical 167). Components: 金・艮.

Words using 銀

銀行ぎんこうbank銀ぎんsilver (Ag)

Example sentences

ジェーンはお金を引き出しに銀行へ行った。

Jane went to the bank to take out some money.

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金より銀の指輪の方が好きです。

I prefer silver rings to gold ones.

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Kanji with the same radical

金針録鉄鈴銭銃鋼鎖鉱鑑銘鋭銅鏡釣

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.