元

HSK 1#744 by frequencyradical 儿

Yuán["q","tg"]

currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon

Examples

我欠他一百元。

I owe him $100.

入场费只需五元。

Admission to the show is $5.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.