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YEN (yen)
A
strong desire or inclination
A
basic unit of currency in Japan
Common
clues: Craving; Desire; Kyoto cash; Longing;
Hankering; It's tender to the Japanese; Itch; Japanese capital
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
6 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
10966 / 86800
News:
Who's
Afraid of a Stronger Yen?
Video:
A
Fistful of Yen
God
bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and
looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health care
debate is a yen
to be treated like a
whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen
to be human again, on
the part of patient and doctor alike.
-
Anna Quindlen, The New York Times, sect. 1, p. 21 (May 14, 1994).
Yen
is the currency used in Japan.
It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the United
States Dollar and Euro. In Japanese it is usually pronounced
"en", but the pronunciation "yen" is standard
in English.
Japanese
10 yen coin (obverse) showing Byodoin Phoenix Hall
The
yen was introduced by the Meiji government (Meiji 4) as a system
resembling those in Europe; yen replaced the overly complex
monetary system of the Edo Period. The New Currency Act of 1871
stipulated the adoption of the decimal accounting system of yen,
and rin, with the coins being round and cast as in the West. (The
sen and the rin were eventually taken out of circulation in
1954.) While not a unit of official currency, for large
quantities of yen the abbreviation man (which means "ten
thousand") is used, in the same way as values in the United
States are often quoted or rounded off to thousands (given the
yen's smaller value, it is much more common). The yen was legally
defined as 0.8667 troy ounces (26.956 g) of silver, a definition
that is still legally enforceable today. The Act also moved Japan
onto the Gold Standard.
Yen
literally means a "round object" in Japanese, as the
Yuan in Chinese.
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