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円

yuán

Character

What 円 means

1. yen (Japanese currency)
2. Japanese variant of 圆

Example sentences

• 计划的总开支为一亿円。
  Jìhuà de zǒng kāizhī wèi yī yì yuán.
  The total expense for the project amounts to one hundred million yen.
• 我用二万五千円买了这台相机。
  I bought this camera for 25,000 yen.
• 修理自行车花了我5000円。
  It cost me 5,000 yen to repair my bicycle.
• 如果你有一百万円，你会用它来做甚么？
  Supposing you had one million yen, what would you do with it?
• 这门生意是个赚大钱的好机会，月入可以达到一百万円！
  Zhè ménshēng yì shì gè zhuàndàqián de hǎo jīhuì, yuè rù kěyǐ dádào yī bǎiwàn yuán!
  There's the chance to get a huge income in this business, a million yen a month is possible!

Characters that look like 円

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 内nèiinside; inner; internal
• 弗fú(literary) not; used in transliteration
• 丝sīsilk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips…
• 匆cōnghurried; hasty
• 冉rǎnedge of a tortoiseshell; used in 冉冉
• 刍chúto mow or cut grass; hay; straw

Sounds the same

Read yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 元currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 员(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member…
• 原former; original; primary
• 园land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation…
• 圆circle; round; circular
• 源root; source; origin
• 援to help; to assist; to aid
• 缘cause; reason; karma
• 辕shaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen…
• 袁long robe (old)
• 猿ape
• 媛used in 婵媛