Word Meaning 銅銭

どうせん dousen

銅銭 is read as どうせん (dousen) and means copper coin.

Meaning

English

  1. copper coin

Reading

Kana

どうせん

Romaji

dousen

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 28 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 132160 Priority U

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

銅器時代

どうきじだい

Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

銅製

どうせい

made of copper

金銭

きんせん

money

小銭

こぜに

small sum of money

釣り銭

つりせん

change (for a purchase)

せん

coin made of non-precious materials

日銭

ひぜに

daily income in cash

身銭

みぜに

one's own money

一文半銭

いちもんきなか

meagre sum of money

一文銭

いちもんせん

one-mon coin

皇朝十二銭

こうちょうじゅうにせん

twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

六文銭

ろくもんせん

crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)