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美元

měi yuán 3–2

American dollar; US dollar

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
美 · 元
Syllables
2
měi yuán
Frequency
Common
corpus count 516

Part of speech: q,n

Character by character

  • 美měi9 strokesHSK 3beautiful, pretty; pleasing
  • 元yuán4 strokesHSK 1first; dollar; origin; head

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 他给他四美元。

    Tā gěi tā sì Měi yuán

    He paid him four dollars.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 美元. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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