The Chinese characters 银 meaning is silver.

Silver is produced by consolidating 金 (gold) with 艮 (hard): 银. 艮, originally the eye (目) turned suddenly around to look a man full in the face defiantly, means “obstinate”. Compared with gold, silver is a hard metal, more precious than common copper. Hence the saying: “Even he who has accumulated 10,000 taels of silver cannot take with him at death half a copper.”

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