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Kanji Detail for 金 - "metal, gold, money"

金

  • Meaning

    金 means "metal, gold, money."

    1. Metal - A general term for metallic elements.

    2. Gold - The precious yellow metal; golden.

    3. Money - Currency; coins; financial resources.

    4. Golden color - The color of gold.

    5. Hard - Solid; an example of something sturdy.

    6. Precious - A metaphor for something beautiful or valuable like gold.

    7. Metal element - One of the five elements; associated with the west direction and the color white.

    8. Venus - The name of the planet.

    9. Gold general - A piece in shogi (Japanese chess).

    10. Friday - One of the seven days of the week.

  • Words using 金

    • 金利 きんり Listen interest rate; interest
    • 金融 きんゆう Listen finance; financing; credit transacting
    • 献金 けんきん Listen donation; contribution; offering
    • 資金 しきん Listen funds; capital
    • 基金 ききん Listen fund; foundation
    • 年金 ねんきん Listen annuity; pension
    • 料金 りょうきん Listen fee; charge; fare
    • 現金 げんきん Listen cash; ready money; money on hand

  • Four-character idioms with 金

    • 一攫千金 いっかくせんきん Listen getting rich quick; making a killing; making a fortune at a single stroke
    • 金科玉条 きんかぎょくじょう Listen golden rule (basic principle ensuring success in some activity)
    • 黄金時代 おうごんじだい Listen golden age
    • 一刻千金 いっこくせんきん Listen every moment is precious; time is money; precious time
    • 一字千金 いちじせんきん Listen word of great value
    • 一擲千金 いってきせんきん Listen being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat

  • Origin of 金

    Nuggets of ore (the two dots) buried under earth 土 beneath a roof-like cover, with 今 originally lending the reading: metal in the ground. It later specialised to gold, the metal of metals.

    How to remember it: A mine: a covered shaft, the earth 土, and two nuggets still buried in it — metal, and above all gold.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: metal, gold, money
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かな, かなさき, かなざき, かなたか)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 金

    Surnames 金(かな)Listen 金(かなさき)Listen 金(かなざき)Listen 金(かなたか)Listen 金(かなや)Listen 金(かぬち)Listen 金(かね)Listen 金(かねかつ)Listen 金(かねし)Listen 金(かねたか)Listen 金(かねのり)Listen 金(かねゆき)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    gold

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    gold; metals in general; money; Kangxi radical 167

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    gold, metal; money

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Substances that can be melted and have their form and quality changed are all metals. There are over sixty chemical elements of metals. In our country, the old term 五金 (five metals) referred to gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin. These were merely the most commonly used. | Yellow gold is the most precious of metals. Therefore gold specifically refers to yellow gold. | In ancient times, gold was used as superior currency. Therefore currency is called 金. Colloquially, one tael of silver is called 一金. | One of the eight musical tone categories. Musical instruments made of metal, such as bells and chimes. Also, the gong is called 金. Advancing with drums and retreating with metal refers to sounding the gong. | Weapons. The Doctrine of the Mean says: "Sleep upon metal and leather." Metal refers to weapons like halberds. | Yellow color is called 金. Animals and plants with 金 in their names all refer to their yellow color. | Hardness is called 金. 金城千里 (metal city for a thousand li) is found in the Book of Han. It means a city so firm it cannot be taken. | Nobility is referred to as 金. As in 金言 (golden words), 金諾 (golden promise) and the like. | Dynasty name. Its ancestors were the Jurchens, surnamed Wanyan. They rebelled against Liao and destroyed it. They also invaded Northern Song and controlled northeastern and northern China. The dynasty was named Jin. There were ten rulers over 120 years before being destroyed by Yuan. | One of the major planets in the solar system. Its orbit is between Mercury and Earth. What ancient people called 啓明 (Morning Star), 長庚 (Evening Star), and 太白 (Venus) are all its other names.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gon(ゴン) ゴン

    kin(キン) キン

    kon(コン) コン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    gane(がね) がね

    kana(かな) かな

    kane(かね) かね

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    金 (kane・kanehen)

  • Related Keywords

    metal gold money precious friday hard beauty currency bank bullion cash coin economics finance funds gilded investment iron jewelry prosperity rich steel strong treasure

Sentences including 金

  • She spends a lot of money on clothes.

  • Money is not everything.

  • The company was in want of money.

  • Money for the plan was lacking.

  • Can i borrow some money from you?

  • I've never had such a large sum of money.

  • Health is more important than money.

  • Tom did it simply for the money.

  • I not only gave him some advice , i gave him some money.

  • He made money from that business.

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