yuán

currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); original; primary

HSK 3 #370

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 370th character
Radical ⼉ (10.2)
Strokes 4
Index # 80

Definitions

元 yuán
  1. 1. currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)
  2. 2. original
  3. 3. primary
  4. 4. fundamental
  5. 5. first
  6. 6. era (of a reign)
  7. 7. the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
  8. 8. meta- (prefix)
  9. 9. constituent
  10. 10. part
  11. 11. surname Yuan
  12. 12. variable
  13. 13. (math.) argument
  14. 14. TW (geology) eon

Stroke order

元 stroke order diagram
元 stroke order animation

Words containing 元

Word Meaning
silver dollar; flat silver (former coinage)
founding father; leading light; principal proponent
single variable (math.); univariate
calendar era; epoch
multi-; poly-; multivariant
apartment
trace element (nutrition)
heavy element (such as uranium)
unified; integration; integrated
first year of an era; first year of an emperor's reign
Wonsan city in Kangweon province jiāng yuán dào of North Korea
first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)
pluralism; belief in many kinds or values
a new year begins (idiom)
a new year begins (idiom)
monism; view that all reality is one
monism; belief all is one basic thing
methyl alcohol CH3OH
Sanyuan District, Sanming, Fujian
Sanyuan District in Sanming, Fujian
ternary operator (computing)
ternary operator (computing)
propyl alcohol C3H7OH
triphthong (such as putonghua uei etc)
32-bit (computing)