yen
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noun- 1.
The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
- 2.
A coin or note worth one yen.
- 3.
A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
humankind's yen for knowledge
She repeated the words: "You for me and me for you," then hummed: "Two for tea and tea for two …" Her voice trailed off … "All I got is a yen for Diana and my sweet little cute little Zigzag."
Đồng nghĩa: craving, desire, hankering, jones, longing, urge, yearning
- 4.
(slang, uncountable)Opium.
Đồng nghĩa: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To have a strong desire for.
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From Medhurst and Hepburn’s romanizations, under the influence of earlier Portuguese - romanizations, of Japanese - 圓 えん as ye or yen, now 円 えん, from Chinese 銀圓 (round silver#Adjective): 銀 (silver) + 圓 ([[circular, round; yuan, yen, dollar). Cognate with 元 and 원. won yuan.