銀ぎん
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
Kanji used
silver
Pitch accent
ぎ
ん
Top 2700
Used in vocabulary (127 in total)
silver (color, colour)
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
bank; banking institution
Ginza (district in Tokyo); busy shopping district; bustling location; silver mint (Edo period)
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
silver prize; silver award; silver medal; 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
wavellite; brazilianite
silver-plated chamfron
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silver medal
silvery background
vermilion (pigment)
silver gray; silver grey
silver nitrate; AgNO3
antique silver finish
silver wedding (anniversary); 25th wedding anniversary
cooked white rice
to capture a silver general; to desilverize; to desilverise
sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable
aluminium; aluminum
strolling in Ginza
silvering; silvered item; person who is all style and no substance; poser
wages; labor wages; labour wages
silver coin
oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
regional bank
city bank; metropolitan bank
Edo-period unit of silver coinage; steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silver mine; silver ore
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
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
silver salt; silver halide; film camera
strolling in Ginza
long-term credit bank; LTCB
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
silver lace; silver braid
chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)
foreign bank
silver chloride
large silvery fly
mameitagin; Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
silver medal; silver badge
tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans); fragrant olive; sweet olive
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
silver iodide
silvering; silver-plating
silver-colored sheet; aluminized insulating sheet
silver foil; silver leaf; beaten silver
sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); black cod; Japanese bluefish; North Pacific bluefish; candlefish; sable
silvering; silver-plating
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
silver standard
mercury(II) chloride; corrosive sublimate
Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
galactic longitude
thin starchy sauce
American banks; American bank; American banking sector
hard solder; silver solder
cooked white rice
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
thin starchy sauce
pure silver; real silver
handling fee; commission
Japanese Bankers Association
long-term credit bank; LTCB
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
mutual savings bank
development bank
reserve bank; Federal Reserve Bank (US)
other bank; another bank
silver quality
exchange of silver generals
exchange bank
commercial bank
Kyoto Bank (abbr)
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
Silver Bear (award at the Berlin International Film Festival)
white poplar (Populus alba); abele
lesser emperor (Anax parthenope)
white leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala); white popinac; wild tamarind
coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutsh); silver salmon
silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
little wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)
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.