銀

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

• 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

Historical forms of the character 銀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrɯn) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 艮 (OC *kɯːns).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur. Cognate with Tibetan དངུལ (dngul), Burmese ငွေ (ngwe).

銀

1. silver (metal)

   白銀 / 白银  ―  báiyín  ―  silver

2. silver (colour)
3. made of silver
4. money; cash

   銀仔 / 银仔 [Cantonese]  ―  ngan^4-2 zai² [Jyutping]  ―  coins

5. A surname​.

Others:

• → Hmong-Mien: *ɲʷi̯ən (“silver”)
  • White Hmong: nyiaj (“silver, money”)
• → Lao: ເງິນ (ngœn, “silver, money”)
• → Thai: เงิน (ngən, “silver, money”)
• → Zhuang: ngaenz (“silver, money”)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. silver

• Go-on: ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: ぎん (gin, Jōyō)
• Kun: しろがね (shirogane, 銀); かね (kane, 銀)
• Nanori: うん (un); かな (kana); かね (kane)

From Old Japanese. May be ultimately derived from onomatopoeia カンカン (kankan, “clang clang”), the sound of hitting metal. Compare Cantonese 金 (gam¹, “metal, gold”), Sanskrit कनक (kanaka, “gold, golden”), possibly suggesting a common onomatopoeic derivation.

• 金, 鉄, 銅

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ne̞]

銀 (hiragana かね, rōmaji kane)

1. metal
2. money

• In former times, silver was the basis for the Japanese economy.
• In modern Japanese, kane is more commonly spelled using the character for gold: 金.
• The money sense is more commonly prefixed with お (o-).

Compound of 白 (shiro, “white”) +‎ 金 (kane, “metal”). Starting from the Muromachi Period, the kane changes to gane due to rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) しろがね [shìrógáné] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiɾo̞ɡa̠ne̞]

銀 (hiragana しろがね, rōmaji shirogane)

1. silver
2. silver dust mixed into glue or some other base: silver paint or lacquer
3. silver thread
4. silver coin
5. the color silver

From Sinitic 銀.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) ぎ​ん [gíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ɡʲĩɴ]

銀 (hiragana ぎん, rōmaji gin)

1. silver (Ag)
2. (shogi) short for 銀将 (ginsho, “the silver general”, a shogi piece)

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

1. silver
2. cash, money, wealth

銀 (ngân, cộng, công)

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• 銀行 (ngân hàng)