Japanese symbol for “movies”
銀幕
ぎんまく
Romaji: ginmaku
(projection) screen
In Japanese, movies is 銀幕, read ぎんまく (ginmaku).
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Meanings
- n (projection) screen
- n the silver screen; the film world; movies
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 銀行 | ぎんこう ginkou | bank; banking institution |
| 銀河 | ぎんが ginga | Milky Way |
| 銀座 | ぎんざ ginza | Ginza (district in Tokyo) |
| 水銀 | すいぎん suigin | mercury (Hg) |
| 銀貨 | ぎんか ginka | silver coin |
| 日本銀行 | にっぽんぎんこう nipponginkou | Bank of Japan; BOJ |
| 開幕 | かいまく kaimaku | raising the curtain |
| 字幕 | じまく jimaku | subtitles; captioning |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.