Meaning & readings
gold
On’yomi キン、コン、ゴン
Kun’yomi かね、かな-、-がね
Nanori かん、きむ、こ、この、ん
Origin
This character is a picture of gold nuggets or precious metal. The shape shows a container or repository at the bottom with valuable material collected inside, representing the precious metal gold itself. Over time, the character came to mean not just the metal but also money and valuables in general, since gold was historically used as currency and a store of wealth.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (金).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 167
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #53 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+091D1