元
元 in English
- currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first / original / primary / (bound form) basic / fundamental / (bound form) constituent / part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument / variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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1美元相当于110日元。
One dollar is equivalent to 110 yen.
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50日元。
It's 50 yen.
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Taro在银行提了10000日元。
Taro drew 10,000 yen from the bank.
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乘飞机去该岛，将花费你100美元。
It will cost you $100 to fly to the island.
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二十美金等于一百四十元。
Twenty dollars are one hundred and forty yuan.
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五千元是一大笔钱。
5000 yuan is a lot of money.
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他一周的收入不超过50美元。
He earns not more than 50 dollars a week.
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他拿了100万美元的退休金。
He took US$1 million retirement funds.