noun
silver foil; silver leaf; beaten silver
Thin sheets of silver used in traditional crafts, decoration, and gilding. The reading ぎんばく is a common voiced variant.
屏風に銀箔を貼る。
Apply silver leaf to the folding screen.
この仏像は銀箔で覆われている。
This Buddhist statue is covered with silver foil.
Search-only form; not a standard written variant.
Gold leaf or gold foil, as opposed to silver.
Compound of 銀 (gin, 'silver') and 箔 (haku, 'foil' or 'leaf'), with rendaku voicing yielding ぎんぱく/ぎんばく.