yennoun
uk/jen/us/jen/plural yenyen noun (MONEY)
[ C ] symbol ¥ the standard unit of money used in Japan:
She earns 400,000 yen a month as an English teacher in Tokyo.
the yen
[ S ] the value of the yen, used in comparing the values of different types of money from around the world:
The yen fell/rose against (= was worth less/more compared to) the dollar today.
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Currencies
- ariary
- bitcoin
- coinage
- colon
- convertible
- cryptocurrency
- decimal currency
- denominate
- dirham
- drachma
- faller
- franc
- guilder
- krona
- krone
- lira
- peseta
- rial
- riyal
- zloty
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yen noun (WISH)
[ C usually singular ] informal a strong feeling of wanting or wishing for something:
I have a yen for travelling.
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Feelings of desire
- appetite
- caprice
- compulsion
- covetous
- craving
- dream
- drive
- get itchy feet idiom
- hankering
- hunger
- impulse
- impulse buy
- longing
- lust
- thirst
- urge
- vaulting
- whim
- wish
- yearning
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