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Kanji Information Sheet for 金 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info: 金 (かね) – metal
Henshall Mnemonic: two gold nuggets under cover of earth
Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #53 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #53 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 金曜 [きんよう]
(n-adv,n-t) (abbr) Friday [K] [D] [Jisho] - 税金 [ぜいきん]
(n) tax; duty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金 [かね]
(n) money; metal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金 [きん]
(n,n-suf) (1) gold; (2) gold general (shogi) (abbr) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 奨学金 [しょうがくきん]
(n) scholarship [K] [D] [Jisho] - 代金 [だいきん]
(n) price; payment; cost; charge; the money; the bill [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金額 [きんがく]
(n) amount of money [K] [D] [Jisho] - 料金 [りょうきん]
(n) fee; charge; fare [K] [D] [Jisho] - 現金 [げんきん]
(adj-na,n) cash; ready money; mercenary; self-interested [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金庫 [きんこ]
(n) safe; vault; treasury; provider of funds [K] [D] [Jisho] - 借金 [しゃっきん]
(n) debt; loan; liabilities [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金銭 [きんせん]
(n) money; cash [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金属 [きんぞく]
(n) metal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 貯金 [ちょきん]
(n,vs) (bank) savings [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金融 [きんゆう]
(n) monetary circulation; credit situation [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 針金 [はりがね]
(n) wire [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金魚 [きんぎょ]
(n) goldfish [K] [D] [Jisho] - 賞金 [しょうきん]
(n) prize; monetary award [K] [D] [Jisho] - 集金 [しゅうきん]
(n,vs) money collection [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 基金 [ききん]
(n) fund; foundation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 募金 [ぼきん]
(n) fund-raising; collection of funds [K] [D] [Jisho] - 送金 [そうきん]
(n) remittance; sending money [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 換金 [かんきん]
(n,vs) realize; turn into money [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金利 [きんり]
(n) interest rates [K] [D] [Jisho] - 保険金 [ほけんきん]
(n) insurance payout [K] [D] [Jisho] - 厚生年金 [こうせいねんきん]
welfare pension [K] [D] [Jisho] - 剰余金 [じょうよきん]
(n) surplus; balance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金屏風 [きんびょうぶ]
(n) folding screen covered with gold leaf [K] [D] [Jisho] - 貴金属 [ききんぞく]
(n) precious metal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 積立金 [つみたてきん]
(n) deposit [K] [D] [Jisho] - 非鉄金属 [ひてつきんぞく]
(n) nonferrous metals [K] [D] [Jisho] - 引き金 [ひきがね]
(n) trigger; gunlock [K] [D] [Jisho] - 売上金 [うりあげきん]
(n) proceeds [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金もうけ [かねもうけ]
(n,vs) money-making [K] [D] [Jisho] - 掛け金 [かけきん]
(n) installment; premium; bill [K] [D] [Jisho] - 年金 [ねんきん]
(n) annuity; pension [K] [D] [Jisho] - 賠償金 [ばいしょうきん]
indemnities; reparations [K] [D] [Jisho] - 納金 [のうきん]
(n) payment [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金貨 [きんか]
(n) gold coin [K] [D] [Jisho] - 資金繰り [しきんぐり]
(n) fundraising; financing [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金塊 [きんかい]
(n) nugget; gold bullion; gold bar [K] [D] [Jisho] - 入金 [にゅうきん]
(n,vs) deposit; payment; money received; money due [K] [D] [Jisho] - 定期預金 [ていきよきん]
fixed deposit [K] [D] [Jisho] - 礼金 [れいきん]
(n) finder's fee; reward; honorarium; "key money" [K] [D] [Jisho] - 金具 [かなぐ]
(n) metal fittings or fixtures [K] [D] [Jisho] - 資本金 [しほんきん]
(n) capital stock [K] [D] [Jisho] - 錬金術 [れんきんじゅつ]
(n) alchemy [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.