IDENTITY
元yuányuan (money unit); first
HSK 1Top 600
CORE MEANING
yuan (money unit); first
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.yuan (money unit)HSK1
- 2.first; originHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 儿legs radical (ér)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱一兀
- top line
- the base body
USAGE
Common words
美元měiyuánUS dollar
元旦YuándànNew Year’s Day
Graded examples
这个玩具二十元。Zhège wánjù èrshí yuán.HSK2
This toy is twenty yuan.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
The head (一 over 兀) at the top — the first, the origin; the head unit of money.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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