What is "yen"

Usage examples of "yen".

This, as you have no doubt guessed, is cito yen ne Kitty Faucon, the bane of my life.

People get him to write kakemonos and signboards for them, and he had earned 10 yen, or about 2 pounds, that day.

Commander Yen Chi-tzu maneuvered the heavy airplane to the end of the runway and coaxed the old turbines to full power, his eye on the number-three engine tachometer and oil-pressure indicator.

Yen waved at the fighter out on the pad, who backed away, and put on ear protectors, then snapped the toggle for the electrical starting motor for number two turbine on the port-engine control-console and watched the engine tachometer as the turbine spun up to speed, the whining noise coming from over his left shoulder.

Yen Tsun was prefect of Yang-chou he once made an inspection journey through the district that had been entrusted to him.

Yen Tsun suspected her and ordered a constable to investigate the corpse.

Yen the broad-smith, Greel the master of the mines, and Vrith, the lame accountant, unleashed a hail of glass-shard-imbued boulders down on her.

All foreign countries have confusing money, with names like the Pound, the Yen, the Libra, the Mark, the Frank, the Duane, the Doubloon, and the Kilometer, all of which appear to have been designed by preschool children.

None of it was serious intent, perhaps, or only mock-seriously to cover up an unmodern attitude, but in their very acts betraying still the basic fear that lingered from the cave, the eternal human yen for protection against bad luck or black magic or the evil eye or whatever other name one might put to it.

There was something about Yen he did not understand, a part of the tapestry unwoven or out of sight, at least.

With Number One we have never come into personal contactwe know him, as it were, only by the impress of his mindand in passing, Hastings, I will tell you that I begin to understand that mind very wella mind most subtle and Orientalevery scheme and plot that we have encountered has emanated from the brain of Li Chang Yen.

That pork cutlet ya ate for supper, ya know that money came from a farmer in Akita, the thousand yen he gave me with his hand all black, ya know that?

Hawkins had put together was money: Chinese, American dollars, plenty of yen, Thai bhat, and a good sum of the ubiquitous euros.

The beach at Vung Tau, once the foundation of our union, has been replaced by a night on Yen Phu Street in Binh Khoi, and no edifice built upon such imperfect stone could be other than cracked and deficient.

Yens frowned and gnawed his lip, Festus had turned away, and Bollo was blank as a worn page in one of the ancient books.