yín
silver
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋrə[n] | ngin | yín | silver |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 27.2305% of movies
1002nd most common character in movies
757th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9280 |
Shuowen | “銀,白金也。从金,艮聲。” |
Sources
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