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

(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.

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