yen
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The main money used in Japan
- noun
- /jɛn/
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yen
- He saved up 1 million yen to buy a car in Japan.
- Japanese yen
- value of the yen
- dollar and yen
I have never bought a yen to trade it for a euro.
- I have never bought a yen to trade it for a euro.
- And people are still saving dollars or yen or euro or pesos.
- The recent interventions in the yen are not the first in recent years.
- Pull up the chart of Bitcoin versus the Japanese yen.
- It has to share that role with the the Japanese yen or the Chinese yuan or the European euro.
- The problem with that is that if the yen were to strengthen like it did, the opposite would happen.
- What is that problem that you, you have an IOU and the IOU says you're going to get a certain number of dollars, let's say, or yen or euros.
- dollars to British pounds to yen, eventually nothing's left.
- You know, I want to make a trillion dollars, pounds, yen, whatever.
- With the exception of very rare cases, the Japanese yen usually just loses lots of money.
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Examples
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Only 400 yen!
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I thought of places I could get to for less than 200 yen one way.
Fiction book (2002) -
But with the Japanese yen, if demand goes down for the yen, what happens?
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How much is that yen worth now?
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20 million yen from each of you, which comes to 60 million.
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What is that, in yen?
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Unfortunately, only 40 million yen.
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How does 24,000 yen a year sound?
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In Japan, the strong yen somewhat curbed the increase in goods and service prices.
Academic text (1990) -
Please deposit two hundred and eighty yen," the machine instructs him.
Fiction book (1996)
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Etymology
Yen originally names Japan's money and comes from the Japanese word en, which means 'round' or 'circle' because the old coins were round, so yen is still the name of Japan's currency.