yuán
noun #12,844

Meanings

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

Examples

Yī Měiyuán kěyǐ huàn duōshao yuán?
How many yen can one US dollar be exchanged for?

Tips

culture
is the Japanese simplified form of (round/circle). It is used as the currency symbol for the Japanese yen. In Chinese contexts, 日元 is the standard term for Japanese yen.

Components

radical
jiōng
open enclosure; downward frame
Outer is the open-frame radical (Kangxi #13), two strokes forming a downward bracket and the indexing radical here. It wraps the character on three sides, picturing the rim of a round coin or coin-shape; is the Japanese-style simplification of 'round / yuan,' so the frame represents the circular outline.
ideograph
shàng
up (variant of 上)
Inner is an old variant of 'above', a small T-shape sitting inside the frame and serving here as the inner mark of a coin or roundel. In the modern yen sign it has lost semantic role and reads as the inner stroke-pattern of the simplified glyph.

Stroke Order

yuán