元
Kana: げん
yuan (Chinese currency)
Example sentence
この雑誌は十五元です。
このざっしはじゅうごげんです。
This magazine is fifteen yuan.
What 元 means
元 (げん) is a Japanese word meaning “yuan (Chinese currency)”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.