銀
yín HSK3

silver

银 (銀) yín
silver noun
the chemical element Ag, a precious white metal

这枚戒指是纯银制作的。

zhè méi jiè​zhi shì chún yín zhì​zuò de.

This ring is made of sterling silver.

silver-colored adjective
having the shiny, pale gray color of silver

月亮发出柔和的银光。

yuè​liang fā​chū róu​hé de yín guāng.

The moon emits a soft silvery light.

money adjective
relating to currency, finance, or wealth

他把这几两银仔细地藏进怀里。

tā bǎ zhè jǐ liǎng yín zǐ​xì de cáng​jìn huái​lǐ.

He carefully tucked those few taels of silver into his clothes.

Frequency
Character
Written text
757th most common 247.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,002nd most common 104.3 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.5 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
96.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
银
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+9280

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)