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"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 do too, but that is not there when it said by the female at the top of this page. Why is that? Is it a regional pronunciation? There are some other places where the male and female pronunciations are different.
There are different ways to pronounce it depending on whatever place you're from.
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.
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).
If you could say how to pronounce those characters you're providing that would be evern more super helpful. Like american dollar, is "mei yuan" or somefin i believe thats how the pinyin is spelt for that.
That's right! That reminds me, 美金 (mei2 jin1) is also used to refer to the currency, but there isn't really ”日金“，or ”英金“，for example.
More 'trivia': you can (colloquially) refer to 50 cents as 五角钱 (wu2 jiao3 qian2) or 五毛钱 (wu3 mao2 qian2).
Good to know:
Note that the pronunciation of the first 五 is not the original 第三声 (di3 san1 sheng1, ie the third tone), but 第二声 (er4, the second tone), since the character that follows is also 第三声. This is a rule for pronunciation.
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
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十 元 • Shí Yuán • Ten Yuan • [[ 2003-2019 exchange rate history: $1 US = ¥ 6-8 CNY Yuan ] • [ ¥1 CNY =~ $0.15 US Dollar • ¥6.88 CNY Yuan ]]
Yuan is not technically the currency of China. The currency of China is 人民币, Yuan is a kind of informal term when you are talking about it from Chinese, but it is called the Chinese Yuan in English, which basically translates to "Chinese Dollar"
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
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
Techically, the Chinese latinised symbol for Yuan has only one line through it...I believe two lines is used for the Japanese Yen
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.
It's the Chinese measurement(¥) of money like dollars in US, rupees in India.... I think so....
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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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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It can be ten Euro-dollars, too. Please see my post about the 元 character: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25665794?comment_id=38975999
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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.
I though the first character is 10 and the next to it is 3. Can someone explaib how it became 10yuan? Thank you
