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"五百元"
Translation:Five hundred yuan
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I understand that 500 is 五百. And also that 100 is 一百. But in the latter case, can the 一 be omitted? Would 百元 be a correct way of expressing 'one 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.
In chinese 百元 is more like a adjective like 百元商店(a store were you buy things all by one hundred dollars from Japan) and 百元大鈔(a banknotr which denomination is one hundred dollars)
No i take Chinese in school yi is normally one so it will be yi bai (yuan only is what the chinese becuase call money)
R they different at all tho? Why is one yuan and the other RMB if they r the same lol im so confused
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.
In common talk between ppl, they usually say: this worth 500 yuan这个500元, nobody will say: this worth 500 RMB 这个500人民币. RMB is more used in financial area. RMB = Ren2Min2Bi4 Ren2Min2: 人民 =people Bi4:币=coin
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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 ?
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.
I do like this 5 , 100 , yuan and its says wrong but its also right .... hmm
I've just write "600 yuan" and it is marked as correct. Somebody has to fix this.
How is "yuan" pronounced? The narrator sounds like he pronounces it with an "r". Can it be pronounced this way? Or am I mishearing an accent or slur?
Um, there isn't a great way to explain it but I'll do my best. It's like the "ye" in yeah, with the "n" in hen.
I really love this app but i need help i just started learning Chinese but whenever i put in (508) to wu bai yuan it says its not right idk what im doing wrong
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Please see my post about "yuan" and 元: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25665794?comment_id=38975999
