"十元"
Translation:Ten yuan
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No, but the 'y' sound in Mandarin is difficult because it is not the full and drawn out 'y' of the American English word of 'yes,' but is closer to the 'i' in machine, but with glide that makes it sound y-ish. My guess is that you hear a 'g' because the sound is strange for a 'y,' or the Duolingo staff fixed it before I got here.
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The "y" is indeed like the "y" in "yes." It's "yu" that's not. This is a little confusing in pinyin. In zhuyin, "y" is ㄧ, and "yu" is ㄩ. "yan" is ㄧㄢ, and "yuan" is ㄩㄢ.
I don't know why am i learning Chinese (o)
Script is confusing me all the time :/
But I never give up :)
Yes i can do it :-)
The dictionary translates "Yuan" both as Yuan and Dollar, so can I translate it as Euro or Yen as well?
You would translate American dollar as 美元 “mei yuan" and euro is 欧元 "ou yuan", etc. Yuan does translate to dollar, but it is kind of informal. It is kind of like saying "One buck", so you've got a little bit of wiggle room with the word.
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No, Euro is 欧元 (ou1 yuan2) and Yen is 日元 (ri4 yuan2). Other examples are 美元 (mei2 yuan2) for American dollar, 英镑 (ying1 bang4) for British pound and China's currency, "Yuan", is really 人民币 (ren2 min2 bi4).
It's the name of the currency that China uses, equal to approximately 0.15 USD or 0.13 Euros or 17.31 Japanese Yen
Yuan is 'units' of currency. So it could be used for other currencies ...I was told. However, if another currency is actually specified then I'd suggest that should be used intranslation. In normal language 'kwai' is used. BUt the correct name for the currency is renminbi (peoples' money). Yeah, I know, internationally, the word yuan is normally used. See also: https://ask-a-chinese-guy.blogspot.com/2010/12/rmb-yuan-and-kwai.html
Ok, I'm from HK and I would have translated this as "Ten dollars" rather than ten yuan. Plz don't have people bash me for being from HK, but I'm just saying... this is how I would've translated it
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That is because you use dollars in Hong Kong. The word 元 can mean both dollar or yuan (unit of renminbi), and is pronounced the same in both cases.
Did you write out ten or put it down numerically? When you write "ten yuan" it should be correct
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It's not simple, but you can be sure it's a unit for currency. Please see my post for more details: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25665794?comment_id=38975999
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元yuan just a unit of currency. Dollar, Pound, Yen also can be translated as xx 元. It is just to indicate that is a currency name.
The thing we can distinguish that is the first character, 欧元 for Euro € , 英镑 for pound £ , 美元 for US dollar $ , 日元 for Yen￥ .
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Both Chinese yuan (renminbi) and dollars are written with the same character (元). Both are correct translations. If you are in China, "yuan" would be the most likely translation.
I would like fot the answer to not be so obvious by separating characters.
It's the pronunciation, Yuan is the Chinese measurement of money. Like the Metric system, if you're learning English and you're in the measuring chapter, you'd probably be exposed to the usage of the Imperial system.
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元, which is a unit for currency. It's like a Chinese version of dollar but different from the US dollar.
It's the Chinese measurement(¥) of money like dollars in US, rupees in India.... I think so....
Does the tone of the first word change when it is with other words? (The way '十' is said by itself and as part of '十元')?
Dear Duolingo , The microfoon reconice evry word even when i sad dag in dutch when it have to shí yuan. I hope that this bias will disapear. The rest of the application is great. ;) <3 Kind regards, Sam Goetmaekers
Shi Yuan.. 10 and 7 are together. People generally think it is 10x7=70. But the right answer as per the app is Ten Seven. How is "Ten Seven" a number?
We're all on phones, our keyboards should all support accents. We should be graded for proper Pīnyīn.
十元 always be Ten yuan but there's a another way to be correct, if we do 10 yuan it stills be correct.
Numbers confuse me i hope the hearts times will be like 1hour cuz sometimes practice is a lil hard
I only got it wrong because yuan didn't register as being tapped after clealy tapping it.
