Character Details
| silver | Ascii: — | w820 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 银 | yín | yeen | 2 | 钅 (metal) + 艮 (stopping) → silver | 银 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Like gold, silver is a metal. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
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| - --Research Pending-- | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - ⻊ | zú | village | foot (side) | left‑side foot | 跑 跟 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 钅 (metal) + 艮 (stopping) → silver | 钅 (metal) | 艮 (gèn) | 艮 is phonetic; 钅 gives semantic “metal” | ||||||||