Pinyin: yuán

yuan (currency)

Example sentence

咖啡二十元一杯。

Kāfēi èrshí yuán yì bēi.

Coffee is twenty yuan a cup.

What 元 means

(yuán) is a Chinese word meaning “yuan (currency)”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 2 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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