yuán

元

yuan (currency unit)

HSK 2.0 · 2 HSK 3.0 · 1
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Meaning, words & where you learn it

Taught in your lessons 课程

买东西Lesson 19 · Going Shopping vocab 买东西HSK 3.0 · Lesson 10 · Shopping vocab

Words with 元

美元 Měi yuán American dollar; US dollar HSK 3
单元 dān yuán unit (forming an entity); element HSK 3
公元 gōng yuán CE (Common Era); Christian Era HSK 4
元旦 Yuán dàn New Year's Day HSK 5
元素 yuán sù element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element HSK 6
元首 yuán shǒu head of state HSK 7–9
元老 yuán lǎo senior figure; elder HSK 7–9
状元 zhuàng yuán top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 眼 and 花 HSK 7–9
元宵节 Yuán xiāo jié Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar HSK 7–9
多元 duō yuán poly-; multi- HSK 7–9
多元化 duō yuán huà diversification; pluralism

Examples from your lessons

  • 这个手表一千两百元。 This watch is 1,200 yuan. Lesson 19
  • 两千八百元。 2,800 yuan. Lesson 19
  • 苹果八元一公斤，西瓜三元一公斤。 Apples are 8 yuan a kilo; watermelon is 3 yuan a kilo. 在商店
  • 第一个手表三千元，太贵了。 The first watch was 3,000 yuan — too expensive. 送给爸爸的礼物
  • 第二个只要五百元，也很好看。 The second one was only 500 yuan, and it looked great. 送给爸爸的礼物

Character facts

Radical
儿 son, child
Parts
二 + 儿
Structure
Top–bottom
Unicode
U+5143

Pictographic: A man 儿 with two lines emphasizing their head 二

Same radical 儿
xiān 先 kè 克 guāng 光 tù 兔 dǎng 党 miǎn 免 dōu 兜 chōng 充
Same sound
yuǎn 远 yuàn 院 yuán 员 yuán 圆 yuàn 怨 yuàn 愿 yuán 原 yuán 园
Also HSK 1
de 的 le 了 wǒ 我 shì 是 nǐ 你 zài 在 bù 不 yǒu 有