元 (yuán)
dollar (currency unit)/primary
How 元 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 二 — two
- Traditional
- 元
- Simplified
- 元 (unchanged)
Components
- 二 two
- 儿 legs
Common words using 元
- 元宵 yuánxiāo
- Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month; see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4]
- 元宵節 yuánxiāojié
- Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
- 元寶 yuánbǎo
- Yuanbao district of Dandong city 丹東市|丹东市[Dan1 dong1 shi4], Liaoning
- 元旦 yuándàn
- New Year's Day
- 元月 yuányuè
- first month of the Lunar calendar; the New Year
- 元氣 yuánqì
- strength; vigor; vitality
- 元素 yuánsù
- element; element of a set; chemical element
- 公元 gōngyuán
- CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
- 次元 cìyuán
- dimension (loanword, from Japanese)
- 歐元 ōuyuán
- Euro (currency)
- 歐元區 ōuyuánqū
- Eurozone
- 美元 měiyuán
- American dollar; US dollar
元 in a sentence
這杯飲料五十元。
Zhè bēi yǐnliào wǔshí yuán.
“This drink is fifty dollars.”
How common is 元?
元 is the 370th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 69.3% of all running text.
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