Out of the two words below which one is the correct term for "cash"?
紙幣{しへい} vs. 現金{げんきん}
現金 is the word that corresponds to cash as opposed to money in a bank account, etc.
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At stores, people say 現金で and クレジットカードで all the time. 紙幣で(支払う) makes sense as a Japanese sentence but that's not what people usually want to say at stores. – naruto Apr 18 '17 at 5:22
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@user1602 If you say you pay in 紙幣 it exclusively means you pay all in notes, and 硬貨 vice versa. – broccoli forest Apr 18 '17 at 12:08
