銭

See also: 錢

銭 U+92AD, 銭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92AD ← 銬 [U+92AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 銮 → [U+92AE]

Translingual

Traditional	錢
Shinjitai	銭
Simplified	钱

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Variant of 錢, simplified from 錢 (戔 → 㦮); compare 残.

The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

銭 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金戈手 (CIQ), composition ⿰釒㦮)

Related characters

• 残, 浅, 践, 桟, 賎

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1305, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40413
• Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4193, character 3
• Unihan data for U+92AD

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 銭 – see 錢 (“money; cash; currency; coins; etc.”). (This character, 銭, is a variant form of 錢.)

Japanese

Shinjitai	銭
Kyūjitai	錢

Kanji

銭

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 錢)

1. money, coin
2. sen (a hundredth of yen)

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō); ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぜに (zeni, 銭, Jōyō); すき (suki, 銭)

Compounds

• 銭(せん)湯(とう) (sentō): bath house
• 小(こ)銭(ぜに) (kozeni): small change
• 銭(ぜに)亀(がめ) (zenigame): pond turtle

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
銭
せん Grade: 6
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
錢 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 錢 (MC dzjen|tsjenX).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せ​ん [séꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

銭(せん) • (sen) 

1. hundredth of a yen
2. (obsolete, archaic) one-thousandth of a kan

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
銭
ぜに Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
錢 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 銭 – see the following entry.

【ぜに】 [noun] a round coin with a square hole in the middle [noun] (by extension) money [noun] (historical) in the Edo period, coins made from copper and iron, as opposed to those made of gold and silver [noun] a 家紋 (“family crest”) with various designs of round coins [proper noun] 銭: a surname

(This term, 銭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Okinawan

Kanji

銭

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: じん (jin, 銭)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Cognate to Kumamoto ぜん (zen) "money, coins"; and standard Japanese Japanese 銭 (zeni) "coin (worth a hundredth of a yen)".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʑiŋ̍/

Noun

銭 (hiragana じん, romaji jin)

1. money
2. coins

Derived terms

Compounds