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Definitions of yen in various dictionaries:
noun - a yearning for something or to do something
noun - the basic unit of money in Japan
verb - have a desire for something or someone who is not present
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| Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these |
| The name of this monetary unit comes from the word for "round"; earlier coins were often oval |
| Y is this currency used in Yokohama |
| This Japanese monetary unit is equivalent to 100 sen |
| It's the "craving" that shares its name with the monetary unit of Japan |
| Japan's currency is called this,meaning "round", as opposed to earlier coins which were often square |
| Scrape together 100 sen & you can trade them in for one of these in Japan |
| In 1954 there was no desire for the sen & rin, smaller denominations of this currency; they were removed from circulation |
| A rin is 1/10 of a sen, which is 1/100 of one of these |
| Yen description |
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The yen (Japanese: , Hepburn: en, symbol: ¥; code: JPY; also abbreviated as JP¥) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro, and the pound sterling. 100 yen is unofficially symbolized $, so a 980-yen item may be written as $9.8. * The concept of the yen was a component of the Meiji government's modernization program of Japan's economy; which postulated the pursuit of a uniform currency throughout the country modeled after the European decimal currency system. * Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan's feudal fiefs all issued their own money, hansatsu, in an array of incompatible denominations. The New Currency Act of 1871 did away with these and established the yen, which was defined as 1.5 g (0.048 troy ounces) of gold, or 24.26 g (0.780 troy ounces) of silver, as the new decimal currency. The former han (fiefs) |