"五百元"
Translation:Five hundred yuan
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No, at least I think so, I use youtube to improve my pronunciation and I see they are forming 一百the same way, so I'll do it too.
"Dollars" should be accepted. As you suggest, it's accepted for similar questions where the Chinese uses "元", and native Chinese speakers have commented elsewhere that it's correct.
This is because in the right context, without the need to be explicitly precise, native Chinese speakers would also simply use "元" for American dollars, new Taiwan dollars, or any one of a number of different currencies. The word isn't specific to one particular currency.
Curiously, "$500" is accepted, if written like that with the numbers and the dollar sign.
My question is I know what 五百元 is but Duolingo asked me to translate to English. Why was my answer wrong when I wrote "500 dollars" on one answer and got it wrong the next time? They wanted me to write "500 yuan". It's one or the other Duolingo should not ask to translate to English on one answer and accept it then expect you to just write out what it means in Chinese in the next!
Renminbi is the name of the currency and means 'money of the people'. Yuan is the basic unit of the currency, the coin (or banknote).
It's like in the UK the official name of the currency is 'pound sterling' and the coin is called 'pound'. You would never say 'I have 5 pounds sterling' (renminbi), instead you say 'I have 5 pounds' (yuan). So you don't use Renminbi to indicate an amount of money. However, the other way around 'yuan' is used to refer to the currency as a whole, just as pounds is used to refer to the UK's currency (omitting the 'sterling'). Source: wiki.
For DL: forget renminbi and just use yuan.
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Question : Is 元 used only for the chinese yuan, or is it standing for all currency, or do Chinese use symbols for each currency separately ? What about paying with £ English Pound, after you dinne in Chinatown in London ?
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For dollars they use 元 plus the symbol for that country infront of it. E.g. 美元 for American dollars or 澳元 for Australian dollars. But for pounds it's 镑. E.g. 英镑 for British pounds or 埃及镑 for Egyptian pounds.