元
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
元 (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.