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银元

yín yuán

2-character word Traditional 銀元

What 银元 means

1. flat silver (former coinage)
2. also written 银圆
3. silver dollar

The characters in 银元

• 银yínsilver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…

Sounds the same

Read yín yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夤缘to curry favor; to advance one's career by toadying
• 银圆variant of 银元

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