ぎん
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. silver (Ag)
Noun
2. silver coin; money
3. silver medal
Adjective (の)
Noun
4. silver colour; silver color
Noun
Abbreviation
5. bank
when read as "ぎん"
6. silver general
when read as "ぎん"
Kanji used
silver
Pitch accent
Top 3300
Used in vocabulary (108 in total)
silver (color, colour)
bank; banking institution
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint
gold and silver; money
mercury (Hg)
silver thread
bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk
made of silver
silver general
silvery wings
(projection) screen; the silver screen; the film world; movies
silverware; silver tableware
silver gray; silver grey
silver bell
silver mine
silver utensil; silverware
Bank of Japan; BOJ; BoJ
silver (second-place) prize
oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
skating rink; ice surface; silver plate
silver-plated champron
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
silver medal
steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silvery background
antique silver finish
silver nitrate; AgNO3
silver gray; silver grey
cooked white rice
silver wedding (anniversary)
to capture a silver general; to desilverize; to desilverise
aluminium; aluminum
strolling in Ginza
wages; labor wages; labour wages
silvering; silvered item; person who is all style and no substance; poser
silver coin
silver halide; silver salt
regional bank
city bank; metropolitan bank
silver mine; ore
Edo-period unit of silver coinage; steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
German silver; nickel silver; silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
silver case
small silver coin of the Edo period
silver gray; silver grey
vermilion; scarlet
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
strolling in Ginza
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
Edo period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber
long-term credit bank; LTCB
silver lace; silver braid
oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
silver chloride
foreign bank
mameitagin; Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
silver medal; silver badge
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
silver iodide
silvering; silver-plating
tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans); fragrant olive; sweet olive
thin starchy sauce
silvering; silver-plating
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
silver standard
Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
galactic longitude
American banks; American bank; American banking sector
hard solder; silver solder
cooked white rice
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
Edo period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber
thin starchy sauce
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
handling fee; commission
interbank payments system
long-term credit bank; LTCB
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
mutual savings bank
other bank; another bank
silver quality
exchange bank
exchange of silver generals
commercial bank
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
white poplar (Populus alba)
lesser emperor (species of dragonfly, Anax parthenope)
little wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)
on-the-spot payment
Examples (8 in total)
Gold is heavier than silver.
Is this real silver?
Copper and silver are both metals.