silver
銀 centers on the precious metal silver, both as a material and as a color or monetary concept.
銀 combines 金 (metal) with 艮, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to a whitish or boundary-like quality, though the exact origin of 艮 in this context is uncertain.
The left side is 金 (metal), and the right side 艮 looks like a shiny ingot. Picture a gleaming silver ingot made of precious metal.
For ギン, imagine a silver coin spinning and landing with a clear 'gin!' sound: gin -> ギン, like the ring of real silver.
bank; banking institution
silver (Ag)
Ginza (district in Tokyo)
Milky Way
Bank of Japan; BOJ
mercury (Hg)
silver (color, colour)
gold and silver
silver coin
Milky Way galaxy; Milky Way; the Galaxy
silver medal
ginkgo nut; gingko nut
ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba); gingko; maidenhair tree
Bank of Japan; BOJ
silver
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
silver hair; gray hair; grey hair
World Bank
regional bank
silver mine