What is "yens"

Usage examples of "yens".

They've only got a basic hundred surnames in all China and of those there're twenty Yus, eight Yens, ten Wus and God knows how many Pings, Lis, Lees, Chens, Chins, Chings, Wongs and Fus and each one of them you pronounce five different ways so God knows who's who!

That would quiet him down, discouraging transfer of his own male yens to other men who didn't feel them.

Carry on, yens," he ordered Kel's archers, using northern slang for "you people".

On the far bank, beyond the lush green of the water meadow, Fei Yens f maids moved among the trees of the orchard, preparing their mistress for the audience to come.

Of the two sons whom he kept with him as the heirs to his name and his house and to the sacred rites of his yens - he had parted with two who had been adopted - the younger one, a boy of about twelve, died five days before his triumph, and the elder, a boy of fourteen, died three days after it.