ぎん
Meanings
Noun
1. silver (Ag)
This ring is made of silver.
Adjective (の)
Noun
2. silver (color)
It was indeed silver in color.
Noun
3. silver (medal, prize, etc.)
They narrowly missed gold and finished with silver.
4. silver coin
5. silver general
Abbreviation
6. bank
Archaic
Noun
7. money
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (112 in total)
silver (color, colour)
Ginza (district in Tokyo); busy shopping district; bustling location; silver mint (Edo period)
gold and silver; money
bank; banking institution
wages; pay
mercury (Hg)
made of silver
silver fox
oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
silver thread
bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk
hard solder; silver solder
silver general
silvery wings
snowscape
(projection) screen; the silver screen; the film world; movies
silvery background
silverware; silver tableware
silver gray; silver grey
silver bell
pure silver
silver mine
silver utensil; silverware
Bank of Japan; BOJ
silver mine; silver ore
silver prize; silver award; silver medal; second-place prize
skating rink; ice surface; silver plate
wavellite; brazilianite
Edo-period unit of silver coinage; steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silver foil; silver leaf; beaten silver
silver-plated chamfron
silvery-white
vermilion (pigment)
silver medal
sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable
silver gray; silver grey
silver nitrate; AgNO3
antique silver finish
silver wedding (anniversary); 25th wedding anniversary
cooked white rice
cooked white rice
to capture a silver general; to desilverize; to desilverise
Milky Way
strolling in Ginza
strolling in Ginza
aluminium; aluminum
large silvery fly
wages; labor wages; labour wages
silver coin
silvering; silvered item; person who is all style and no substance; poser
regional bank
city bank; metropolitan bank
lesser emperor (Anax parthenope)
white poplar (Populus alba); abele
tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans); fragrant olive; sweet olive
German silver; nickel silver; silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods
silver case
small silver coin of the Edo period
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
silver salt; silver halide; film camera
silver lace; silver braid
long-term credit bank; LTCB
central bank
thin sheet of silver; silver foil; censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony; Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)
speech is silver, silence is golden
silver halide
silver chloride
silver powder
foreign bank
mameitagin; Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
silver medal; silver badge
silvering; silver-plating
silver iodide
coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutsh); silver salmon
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
white leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala); white popinac; wild tamarind
silver-colored sheet; aluminized insulating sheet
silver standard
galactic longitude
Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
thin starchy sauce
American banks; American bank; American banking sector
mercury(II) chloride; corrosive sublimate
silver quality
development bank
exchange of silver generals
exchange bank
silver cyanide
speech is silver, silence is golden
silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
little wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)
long-term credit bank; LTCB
mutual savings bank
commercial bank
silver bromide
handling fee; commission
native silver
other bank; another bank
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
regional bank
pure silver; real silver
Silver Bear (award at the Berlin International Film Festival)
reserve bank; Federal Reserve Bank (US)
Japanese Bankers Association
Kyoto Bank (abbr)
on-the-spot payment
Examples (23 in total)
Gold is heavier than silver.
Is this real silver?
They narrowly missed gold and finished with silver.