元

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Example sentences

• 只要十元！

  Zhǐ yào shí yuán

  It only costs $10.00!

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• 他给他四美元。

  Tā gěi tā sì Měi yuán

  He paid him four dollars.

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• 一万日元够吗？

  Yī wàn Rì yuán gòu ma

  Will ten thousand yen do?

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• 五千元是很多钱。

  Wǔ qiān yuán shì hěn duō qián

  5000 yuan is a lot of money.

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Words containing 元

• 元yuán 2currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon
• 美元měi yuán 3–2 American dollar; US dollar
• 单元dān yuán 1–2 unit (forming an entity); element; (in a residential building) entrance or staircase
• 公元gōng yuán 1–2 CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
• 元旦yuán dàn 2–4 New Year's Day
• 元素yuán sù 2–4 element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element; (math.) element (member of a set)
• 元首yuán shǒu 2–3 head of state
• 多元化duō yuán huà 1–2–4diversification; pluralism; to diversify
• 元宵节yuán xiāo jié 2–1–2Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
• 元老yuán lǎo 2–3 senior figure; elder; doyen
• 状元zhuàng yuán 4–2 top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 眼 and 花; top scorer in college entrance examination 考; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
• 多元duō yuán 1–2 poly-; multi-; multielement; multivariant; multivariate (math.)