銭

See also: 錢

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

Translingual

Traditional	錢
Shinjitai	銭
Simplified	钱

Glyph origin

Variant of 錢, simplified from 錢 (戔 → 㦮); compare 残.

The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

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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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 銭 – see 錢 (“money; cash; currency; coins; etc.”). (This character, 銭, is a variant form of 錢.)

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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

• Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō); ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni, 銭, Jōyō); すき (suki, 銭)

Compounds

• 銭 (せん)湯 (とう) (sentō): bath house
• 小 (こ)銭 (ぜに) (kozeni): small change
• 銭 (ぜに)亀 (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