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"
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (98 in total)
silver (color, colour)
Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint
wages; pay
bank; banking institution
gold and silver; money
silver gray; silver grey
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
wages; labor wages; labour wages
silver mine
silver thread
skating rink; ice surface; silver plate
Milky Way
thin starchy sauce
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
mercury (Hg)
snowscape
oxidized silver; oxidised silver; something restrained but impressive (e.g. performance); something quiet but superb; something masterfully controlled
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 powder
made of silver
hard solder; silver solder
silvery wings
silver gray; silver grey
silvery-white
strolling in Ginza
ichibugin; Edo-period rectangular silver coin worth one quarter ryō
central bank
Edo period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber
bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk
silver general
silvery background
(projection) screen; the silver screen; the film world; movies
silverware; silver tableware
silver bell
pure silver
silver utensil; silverware
Bank of Japan; BOJ; BoJ
silver (second-place) prize
silver mine; ore
Edo-period unit of silver coinage; steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)
silver medal
silver-plated champron
silver nitrate; AgNO3
antique silver finish
cooked white rice
cooked white rice
silver wedding (anniversary)
to capture a silver general; to desilverize; to desilverise
strolling in Ginza
aluminium; aluminum
vermilion; scarlet
silver coin
silvering; silvered item; person who is all style and no substance; poser
regional bank
silver halide; silver salt
city bank; metropolitan bank
lesser emperor (species of dragonfly, Anax parthenope)
white poplar (Populus alba)
German silver; nickel silver; silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods
tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans); fragrant olive; sweet olive
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
silver case
small silver coin of the Edo period
silver lace; silver braid
long-term credit bank; LTCB
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
silver halide
silver chloride
mameitagin; Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
silver medal; silver badge
foreign bank
silvering; silver-plating
silver iodide
silver iodide
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
silver standard
galactic longitude
Edo-period lump of silver used as currency
American banks; American bank; American banking sector
silver quality
exchange of silver generals
exchange bank
silver cyanide
interbank payments system
speech is silver, silence is golden
speech is silver, silence is golden
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
on-the-spot payment
Examples (8 in total)
Gold is heavier than silver.
Is this real silver?
Copper and silver are both metals.