# 銀 — Silver

Frequency rank 744 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 錠 (Lock), less common than 願 (Request).

- On’yomi: ぎん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 金 Gold (Kangxi 167)
- Frequency path: Level VI of XX

Gold (金) meets a root (艮) — digging at the root of the mountain, you find not gold but silver ore gleaming in the rock.

In words:

- 銀行 ぎんこう — bank
- 銀 ぎん — (1) silver,silver coin,silver paint

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