circle, yen, round
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
えっと…百グラムで二百円になります。
Etto... hyaku guramu de nihyaku en ni narimasu.
Let's see... a hundred grams runs two hundred yen.
ああ、それと、千円までにしてね。
Aa, sore to, sen'en made ni shite ne.
Oh, and don't spend more than a thousand yen, okay?
いいですね、今日は鶏肉のお弁当がセール中で、三百八十円なんです。
Ii desu ne, kyou wa toriniku no obentou ga seeruchuu de, sanbyaku hachijuu-en nan desu.
Great, today the chicken bentos are on sale, they're three hundred and eighty yen.
計算してみますね…お弁当六つと飲み物で、九百九十円です。
Keisan shite mimasu ne… obentou muttsu to nomimono de, kyuuhyaku kyuujuu-en desu.
Let me calculate... with six bentos and the drinks, that's nine hundred and ninety yen.
もちろん！このお弁当二つと飲み物二つで、だいたい千百円ですね。
Mochiron! Kono obentou futatsu to nomimono futatsu de, daitai sen hyaku-en desu ne.
Of course! With these two bentos and two drinks, that's about eleven hundred yen.
こちらは四百五十円です。
Kochira wa yonhyaku gojuu-en desu.
This one is four hundred and fifty yen.
チャーシュー追加、いるか？二百円だぞ。
Chaashuu tsuika, iru ka? Nihyaku-en da zo.
Want extra chashu? It's two hundred yen.
一円の価値もあるよ。念のため、もう一度着てみたいな。
Ichien no kachi mo aru yo. Nen no tame, mou ichido kite mitai na.
Worth every yen. I want to try it on again, just to be sure.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0