銀
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Translingual
Han character
銀 (radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金日女 (CAV), four-corner 87132, composition ⿰金艮)
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
Chinese
| trad. | 銀 | |
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| simp. | 银 | |
| Chemical element | |
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| Ag | Previous: 鈀 (Pd) |
| Next: 鎘 (Cd) | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 銀 | |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 艱 | *krɯːn |
| 齦 | *kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn |
| 眼 | *ŋrɯːnʔ |
| 蛝 | *ɡrɯːn |
| 限 | *ɡrɯːnʔ |
| 硍 | *ɡrɯːnʔ |
| 豤 | *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn |
| 詪 | *ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns |
| 根 | *kɯːn |
| 跟 | *kɯːn |
| 珢 | *kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn |
| 艮 | *kɯːns |
| 茛 | *kɯːns |
| 墾 | *kʰɯːnʔ |
| 懇 | *kʰɯːnʔ |
| 垠 | *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn |
| 泿 | *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn |
| 痕 | *ɡɯːn |
| 拫 | *ɡɯːn |
| 鞎 | *ɡɯːn |
| 很 | *ɡɯːnʔ |
| 恨 | *ɡɯːns |
| 銀 | *ŋrɯn |
| 檭 | *ŋrɯn |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrɯn) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 艮 (OC *kɯːns).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur. Cognate with Tibetan དངུལ (dngul), Burmese ငွေ (ngwe).
Pronunciation
Definitions
銀
Compounds
Derived terms from 銀
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Japanese
Readings
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 銀 |
| かね Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi |
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.
Usage notes
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
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| 銀 |
| しろがね Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi |
Compound of 白 (shiro, “white”) + 金 (kane, “metal”). Starting from the Muromachi Period, the kane changes to gane due to rendaku (連濁).
Noun
Compounds
Compounds
- 銀色 (shirogane-iro): a bright shining color, like silver
- 白銀蜘蛛, 銀蜘蛛 (shirogane-gumo): a type of spider
- 銀細工 (shirogane-zaiku): finework using silver
- 銀師 (shiroganeshi): a silverworker, a silversmith
- 銀草 (shiroganesō): alternate term for Dichocarpum stoloniferum, a type of low-growing flowering plant in family Ranunculaceae
- 銀作 (shirogane-zukuri): something decorated in silver, or made from silver
- 銀屋 (shiroganeya): a silverworker or silversmith's place of business; a silverworker or silversmith; (archaic) a moneychanger
Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
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