kwai

Examples

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• Colonel Green's given me the Kwai bridge.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• "Bridge on the River Kwai."

  Fiction book (2000)

• Here is the River Kwai, and here is the village where you were helped.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• You ever constructed a bridge across a stream like the Kwai?

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• You British prisoners have been chosen... to build a bridge across the River Kwai.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• Yai says we're two to three days' march from the Kwai.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• Yai says we can't reach the Kwai by the route you took.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• If you go to the Tsing Kwai Highway, you can get great night views of the cargo piers along the Rambler Channel.

  Blog text (17)

• I saved some kwai to buy souvenirs while traveling in China.

• The cost of the meal was fifty kwai, which I paid in cash.

Synonyms

Y

yuan

vskwai

19 4.5

The main money unit used in China worth 100 smaller units

is an informal name used for this unit

R

renminbi

vskwai

5 5.1

The official money of China, also called the yuan

is an informal term for the same unit rather than the official currency name

C

Chinese monetary unit

vskwai

3.5

A unit of money that people use in China, like the yuan

is an informal term rather than a formal descriptive phrase

Surface Forms

Etymology