銀
銀 is Unicode character number 37504 id est, X9280, CJK, KanjiLiberal.
Picture: 銀 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE9 x8A x80 in the hexadecimal representation and
233 138 128 in the decimal representation.
Glyph 銀 causes no confuse [1]; by default, no other Unicode character has the same Glyph.
In Japanese and in Tarja, 銀 may mean silver (element 47, Ag); cash, money, wealth.
In Japanese and in Tarja, 銀 can be pronounced as «ギン», «ゴン», «しろがね».
銀 may have also other meanings and other pronunciations dependently on the context.
Glyph components and confuses
Glyph 銀 looks as a combination of two (a little bit squeezed) glyphs 金 and 良.
Each of these two glyphs causes confuses.
To year 2025, they do not yet have established unique encodings.
In sci-fi utopia Tartaria, the standard font Uniglif is mentioned;
it provides unambiguous bijection, the one-to-one correspondence between characters
and the glyphs.
In reality, these two glyphs do not determine the pair of Unicode characters. The confuses are mentioned in this section.
To year 2025, Glyph 金 has not yet established the default encoding.
Glyph 金 may mean gold and may correspond to the following characters:
X2FA6 ⾦,
X91D1 金 or
XF90A 金.
Even a native Japanese speaker looking at characters
⾦,
金,
金 is unlikely to guess:
which of them is Unicode character number X2FA6 ⾦?
which of them is Unicode character number X91D1 金?
which of them is Unicode character number XF90A 金?
The second glyph 良 is also ambiguous.
It may mean silver and may correspond to the following characters:
X826F 良 [2] or
XF97C 良 [3].
Even a native Japanese speaker looking at characters
良, 良
is unlikely to guess:
which of them is Unicode character number X826F 良?
which of them is Unicode character number XF97C 良?
For this confusion, characters ⾦, 金, 金, 良, 良 are not allowed in technical language Tarja; the Hiragana or Ascii transliterations can be used instead (as well as ascii words borrowed from other languages).
However the combination of the two glyphs into a single glyph provides unambiguous indication to character «X9280» «銀». The description by Nihongomaster is copipasted below.
Nihongomaster
https://www.nihongomaster.com/japanese/dictionary/kanji/632/銀
銀 JLPT 4
Strokes: 14
Radicals: 金
silver
On'Yomi Readings ギン
Kun'Yomi Readings しろがね
Popular Words With This Kanji
銀行 bank
銀, 白銀, 白金 silver; silver coin; silver paint silver general (shogi)
Warning
The interpretation above is based on the publications cited.
Such a description may require corrections by a native Japanese speaker.
References
- ↑ https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=9280&B1=Show 銀 9280 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9280 Han Script confuse: none.. (kDefinition) silver (element 47, Ag); cash, money, wealth. (kJapanese) ギン | ゴン | しろがね
- ↑ https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=826F&B1=Show 826F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826F Han Script confuse: 良 .. (kDefinition) good, virtuous, respectable.. (kJapanese) リョウ|ロウ|よい|まことに|やや ..
- ↑ https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=F97C&B1=Show 良 F97C CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F97C Han Script confuse: 良 .. (kDefinition) good, virtuous, respectable