「金」 (12. 092)

The Japanese Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation has announced their character of the year as kin, meaning gold or money, to capture the state of the world, and as in past years stretching back to 1995 with the proficiency society with the popular choice writ large by the head priest at the Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto on Kanji Day (12 December—see previously), the testing-body also an examine on twelve levels to assess one’s general literacy.