金

• Material: Literal gold or a general term for smelted metals (especially in contexts involving tools or weaponry).
• Economic: Money, currency, or wealth.
• Cosmological: The element of Metal within the Five Phases (Wu Xing), associated with the West, autumn, and qualities of contraction or harvest.

When used as a modifier, the term may indicate literal material composition or symbolic prestige and high rank.

Semantic variant U+91D2 is generally interchangeable with 金.

Kangxi radical 167; functions as the primary semantic indicator for characters pertaining to mining, forging, jewelry, and value.