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)

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

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

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

Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
銭
せん
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 錢 (MC d͡ziᴇn, t͡siᴇnX).

Pronunciation

Noun

銭 (hiragana せん, rōmaji sen)

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

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
銭
ぜに
Grade: 5
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 銭 – see the following entry at ぜに.
ぜに【銭】
[noun]a round coin with a square hole in the middle
[noun](by extension) money
[noun](historical) in the Edo period, coins made from copper and iron, as opposed to those made of gold and silver
[noun]a 家紋 (“family crest”) with various designs of round coins
[proper noun]銭: a surname
(This term, 銭, is a kanji spelling of ぜに.)

Okinawan

Kanji

銭 (hiragana じん, romaji jin)

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology

Cognate to Kumamoto ぜん (zen) "money, coins"; and standard Japanese Japanese 銭 (zeni) "coin (worth a hundredth of a yen)".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʑiŋ̍/

Noun

銭 (hiragana じん, romaji jin)

  1. money
  2. coins

Derived terms
Compounds

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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