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銀

简银 · 繁銀

Mandarin · pinyin yín

silver
silver-colored
relating to money or currency

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银: yín · silver; cash, money, wealth

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Cantonese word readings for 銀. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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silver
silvern; made of silver
silvery; silver-colored; lustrous; white; shiny
cash; money; currency
(Cantonese) coin
(Cantonese, Teochew, Hainanese, Zhao'an Hakka) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
a surname

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