円 (yuán) — yen (Japanese currency)
Definition
Japanese kanji for the yen (Japanese currency). In Chinese, prefer 日本圆 or the native 圆 / 元 when talking about yen.
noun
yen (Japanese currency)
Easily confused
- 员yuánsound-alike(suffix) person; employee; member
- 元yuánsound-alike(classifier) yuan, the basic unit of Chinese currency
- 原yuánsound-alikeoriginal, former
- 圆yuánsound-alike(noun) circle
- 源yuánsound-alikesource; origin (bound morpheme)
- 园yuánsound-alikegarden; park; (in compounds) a place for a specific purpose (e.g., kindergarten, botanical garden)
Examples
- 円。Zhè ge jì niàn pǐn huā le wǒ sān qiān rì běn yuán.This souvenir cost me 3,000 Japanese yen.
- 円。Jīn tiān de huì lǜ shì yì měi yuán duì yì bǎi rì běn yuán.Today's exchange rate is one US dollar to 100 Japanese yen.
- 円。Rì běn yuán hé rén mín bì de huì lǜ shì bō dòng de.The exchange rate between Japanese yen and Chinese yuan fluctuates.
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