銭

銭 U+92AD, 銭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92AD ← 銬 [U+92AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 銮 → [U+92AE]

See also: 錢

Translingual

Traditional	錢
Shinjitai	銭
Simplified	钱

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 錢 (戔 → 㦮); simplified component is approximately 戋 with an extra 一; compare 残.

Han character

銭 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金戈手 (CIQ), composition ⿰金㦮)

Related characters

• 残, 浅, 践, 桟, 賎

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1305, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40413
• Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4193, character 3
• Unihan data for U+92AD

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Japanese

Shinjitai	銭
Kyūjitai	錢

Kanji

銭

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 錢)

1. money
2. sen (a hundredth of yen)

Readings

• Goon: せん (sen), ぜん (zen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni), すき (suki)

Compounds

• 銭湯 (せんとう) (sentō): bath house
• 小銭 (こぜに) (kozeni): small change
• 銭亀 (ぜにがめ) (zenigame): pond turtle

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ぜ​に [zéꜜnì] (Atamadaka - [1])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ze̞ɲ̟i]

Noun

銭 (hiragana せん, rōmaji sen)

1. hundredth of a yen
2. (obsolete, archaic) one-thousandth of a kan