HSK 5 · Objects

银 yín “silver” in Chinese

Traditional 銀

What 银 means

  1. silver
  2. silver-coloured
  3. relating to money or currency

How to say 银

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale银yín2nd tone, rising

银 in a sentence

  1. 你在哪买的银？

    Nǐ zài nǎ mǎi de yín?

    Where did you buy the silver?

    Sentence #13893789 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 银 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 银 (yín) with each of its parts in a different colour
银yínsilver
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 艮stopping · gěnSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 艮 (gěn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yín.

How to write 银

银 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

银 (yín) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 银 (yín). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 银

Words with 银

银行yínháng · bank银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card

More words: Objects & Materials

锁suǒ · to lock玩具wánjù · plaything文具wénjù · stationery (pens亿yì · 100 million原料yuánliào · raw material磅bàng · pound (weight)包袱bāofu · burden包装bāozhuāng · packaging

FAQs

银 (yín) means “silver” or “silver-coloured”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yín: yín with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 银 is written 銀. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 银 from the suggestions. Typing yin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
银 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.