(yuán) - yuan (unit of currency), first, primary in Mandarin
yuánTraditional: 元
Translation
yuan (unit of currency), first, primary
Word origin
Originally an ideograph of a person with the head emphasised, meaning head or first; it was later borrowed as the formal name of the basic unit of currency.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 儿 (rén, person) with 二 marking the head above
Stroke order
元
Examples
百。
This piece of clothing costs three hundred yuan.
。
A cup of coffee costs twenty yuan.
百钞。
He gave me a one hundred yuan note.
。
The ticket is fifty yuan per person.
格。
The price of this book is thirty yuan.
元 (yuán) is the formal written name of the basic unit of Chinese currency, the spoken equivalent of which is 块. It also keeps its older meanings of first or primary in words like 元旦 (New Year's Day).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 元.
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