元
yuán
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The yuan, the basic unit of Chinese money, in its written and official form. It is the word printed on price tags, menus and receipts: 三十元 'thirty yuan'. In conversation people usually say 块 instead; 元 spoken aloud sounds like an announcement.
Đồng nhân dân tệ, đơn vị tiền cơ bản của Trung Quốc, ở dạng viết và dạng chính thức. Bảng giá, hóa đơn đều ghi 元: 三十元 là ba mươi tệ. Khi nói chuyện, người ta thường dùng 块; nói 元 thành tiếng nghe trang trọng như lời thông báo.
ClassifierRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “元” mean?
The yuan, the basic unit of Chinese money, in its written and official form. It is the word printed on price tags, menus and receipts: 三十元 'thirty yuan'. In conversation people usually say 块 instead; 元 spoken aloud sounds like an announcement.
Is “元” formal or informal?
元 is generally neutral.