金銭
きんせん · kinsen · JLPT N3 · noun
money
💰🪙 金銭 = gold 金 + coin 銭 (sen, an old unit of money)
金 (kin) means gold or metal, and 銭 (sen) was a small coin worth 1/100 of a yen. Gold plus coins gives money in general. It is a formal word, used in phrases like 金銭感覚, a sense of money.
金 — roof 亼 + two dots (metal nuggets) + earth 土
Originally a pictograph of metal nuggets buried in the earth beneath a covering, with the two dots representing pieces of ore. It first meant 'metal' broadly, then narrowed to 'gold' as the most precious metal, and by extension 'money'.