銀

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Compounds 3.3 Noun 3.4 Adnominal 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Min Nan 6.1 Hanzi 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 (“‘metal’”) + phonetic 艮

[edit] Han character

銀 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金日女 (CAV), four-corner 8713₂)

1. silver, Ag
2. cash, money, wealth

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1303, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40355
• Dae Jaweon: page 1805, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4202, character 18
• Unihan data for U+9280

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

銀 (simplified 银, Yale ngan2, ngan4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /giɴ/

[edit] Kanji

銀 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ぎん (gin), ごん (gon)
• Kun: しろがね (shirogane)

[edit] Compounds

銀貨

銀行 (ぎんこう, ginkō), “‘bank’”) 白銀

[edit] Noun

銀 (hiragana ぎん, romaji gin) or 銀 (hiragana しろがね, romaji sirogane)

1. silver(Ag)
2. (in Shogi, an abbreviation for "銀将(ぎんしょう, ginsho)") a silver general

[edit] Adnominal

銀の(ぎんの, gin'no)

1. silver

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

銀 (hangeul 은, revised eun, McCune-Reischauer ŭn, Yale un)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

銀 (simplified 银, pinyin qióng (qiong2), yín (yin2), Wade-Giles ch'iung², yin²)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

銀 (POJ gîn, gûn)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

銀 (ngân)