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银

yín

silver

Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound. Simplified form of 銀.

Components
钅 meaning component

钅  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

钅 is a component form of 金.

艮 sound component

艮  Sound component

gěn, gèn

  

blunt

Evolution

银 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
银 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
银 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
银 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

银 (銀) 

yín

silver; cash, money, wealth; silver-colored; relating to money or currency

Most common words with 银
Freq.
Word
Meaning

银行

bank

银

silver

商业银行

commercial bank

银色

silver (color)

银河

Milky Way

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 27.2305% of movies

1002nd most common character in movies

757th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

銀

Unicode

U+94F6


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