円
Kana: えん
yen (unit of money)
Example sentence
この本は五百円です。
このほんはごひゃくえんです。
This book is five hundred yen.
What 円 means
円 (えん) is a Japanese word meaning “yen (unit of money)”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.