現金

げんきん
cash, ready money, mercenary

Reading

Readingげんきん
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji現金

Meanings

  1. cash
  2. ready money
  3. mercenary
  4. self-interested
  1. money on handn.
  2. currency
  3. calculatingadj-na

Synonyms

キャッシュ

Homonyms

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Same reading (げんきん)
厳禁 · strict prohibition

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

現金で払うと喜ばれる
げんきんではらうとよろこばれるPeople are happy when you pay in cash.
トラベラーズチェックを現金に替えてくれるのはこの窓口ですか?
とらべらーずちぇっくをげんきんにかえてくれるのはこのまどぐちですか?Is this window where you exchange traveler's checks for cash?
わずかな収入をやりくりして、現金で、サービスを利用している。
わずかなしゅうにゅうをやりくりして、げんきんで、さーびすをりようしている。Scraping by on a meagre income, they pay for services in cash.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 現金

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked