Chinese symbol for “yen”
日元
rì yuán
yen (currency of Japan)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for yen is 日元 (rì yuán), defined as: yen (currency of Japan).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “yen”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 円 | yuán | yen (Japanese currency); Japanese variant of 圓|圆 |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 日元.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 日子 | rì zi | day; a (calendar) date |
| 日常 | rì cháng | day-to-day; daily; everyday |
| 日报 (日報) | rì bào | daily newspaper |
| 每日 | měi rì | daily; (soup etc) of the day |
| 日期 | rì qī | date |
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 多元 | duō yuán | poly-; multi- |
See also: Japanese symbol for “yen”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.