元 — Chinese character
元
yuán
first; dollar; origin; head
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 10 ⼉ (Legs)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 二 儿
- Formation
- pictographic — A man 儿 with two lines emphasizing their head 二
- Japanese
- 元 as a kanji
Common words with 元
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 多元 | duō yuán | poly-; multi- |
| 元素 | yuán sù | element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element |
| 欧元 (歐元) | ōu yuán | euro (currency) |
| 公元 | gōng yuán | CE (Common Era); Christian Era |
| 单元 (單元) | dān yuán | unit (forming an entity); element |
| 公元前 | gōng yuán qián | BCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ) |
| 元年 | yuán nián | first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era |
| 元首 | yuán shǒu | head of state |
| 元帅 (元帥) | yuán shuài | (military) marshal; commander-in-chief |
| 日元 | rì yuán | yen (currency of Japan) |
| 港元 | gǎng yuán | Hong Kong dollar |
English words written with 元
元 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 27 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 5
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.