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fen

fen

9.3
A small Chinese coin worth one hundredth of a yuan
  • noun
  • /fɛn/
translation icon : fen
  • "You charged him only fifty fen a pancake."
  • yuan 20 fen

Examples

  • "You charged him only fifty fen a pancake."

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Their white, perfect teeth shone in the flickering torchlight. Fen sighed, realizing.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Jia handed a five-fen coin to the woman and said, "One, please."

    Fiction book (1995)

  • "Now I can barely get 2 yuan 40 fen (today worth 50 cents)."

  • "Jia handed a five-fen coin to the woman and said, 'One, please.'"

Compounds

fen orchid
  • UK
9.9

A small plant that grows in marshes with two low leaves and dull yellow green flowers

fen orchis
  • UK
9.9

A small orchid from Europe and eastern North America with two low leaves and dull yellow-green flowers

Surface Forms

fen singular
fens plural

Etymology

The word fen for the Chinese money unit comes from the Chinese word fen, written with the character '分', which means 'part' or 'divide'. So a fen is a small part of a yuan, like a 'cent' is part of a dollar.