Yen

Definition: Yen

Yen

Noun

1. A yearning for something or to do something.

2. The basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen.

Verb

1. Have a yen for.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "yen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Geography

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Yen

Crosswords: Yen

Breton (cold), Dutch (yen), French (yen), German (yen), Italian (yen), Papiamen (complete, full, integral), Spanish (yen), Swedish (yen), Turkish (sleeve, spathe, wristband, yen).

You've really got a yen to hurt this girl, haven't you? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I shall fine you each 1000 yen. (The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu; writing credit: Rudy Dochtermann; Jim Moloney)

You need a yen to make a mark (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

All the Japanese with their yen (Walk Like An Egyptian; performing artist: The Bangles)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

Nguoi Yen Di Lay Chong (1995)

Hsi yen (1993)

A Yen for Baseball (1989)

Thi Tran Yen Tinh (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Shin Yen Textile Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Yen for Real Estate: Japanese Real Estate Investment Abroad---From Boom to Bust (New Horizons in International Business) (reference)

• Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen (reference)

• Master of Love and Mercy: Cheng Yen (reference)

• Tell the People: Talks With James Yen About the Mass Educational Movement (reference)

• The Yo-Yo Yen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chen Tzu Yen Chiu = Acupuncture Research (reference)

• Han Hsueh Yen Chiu Tung Hsun = Newsletter For Research In Chinese Studies (reference)

• Hanxue Yanjiu = Han Hsueh Yen Chiu = Chinese Studies (reference)

• Sino-japanese Studies = Chung Jih Yen Chiu (reference)

• Ssu Yu Yen (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Hoy Yen Ass'n (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Master Sergeant Gayle Thomas and Hiroe Aoki, both members of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service-Japan, use a centralized disbursing system to verify yen payments to local vendors here. The mission of DFAS-J is to provide finance and accounting ser.

Portrait of Hilda Yen. Credit: Library of Congress.

This is Hai Yen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The retail price will be 350 yen (about $3.5) per title. (references)

In 1999, the Japanese Tax Agency collected a total of 47 trillion yen in taxes. (references)

In the fall of 1990, this led to the resumption of Japan's third yen loan to China. (references)

Children

Japan

In December the Fukuoka District Court ruled that the Jojima Municipal and Fukuoka Prefectural governments had not taken sufficient action in the case of a boy who committed suicide in 1996 after being harassed and beaten by classmates and ordered the governments to pay $79,095 (10 million yen) in compensation to the boy's parents. (references)

Economic History

Japan

In yen terms, the device market continued to exhibit modest expansion. (references)

Japan

An additional 53 supplement products each have annual sales exceeding 2 billion yen or about $16 million. (references)

Human Rights

Japan

The Government decided against appealing the court decision in May, and in June the Diet adopted a compensation bill that agreed to provide between $63,276-110,733 (8-14 million yen) each to over 4,000 former patients. (references)

Japan

In May the Kumamoto District Court ordered the Government to pay $15 million (1.89 billion yen) to 127 plaintiffs suffering from Hansen's Disease who were confined to remote sanatoriums under the 1953 Leprosy Prevention Law, after a cure for the disease had been developed. (references)

Japan

In June the Tokyo District Court ordered the Government to pay $10,000 (1 million yen) in damages to a prisoner for being confined in handcuffs for prolonged periods of isolation at a Tokyo immigration detention facility in 1994. The Court ruled that manacling the man's hand behind him and detaining him in isolation for long periods was unlawful. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Both Environmental Aid loans and Special Yen loans are tied to the purchase of Japanese products. (references)

ISRAEL

The shekel floats within a predefined target zone against a basket of currencies: the dollar, yen, euro, and pound sterling. (references)

JAPAN

Effective January 2001, Japan raised the level of punitive damages for software piracy from 3 million yen to 100 million yen. (references)

Trade

Japan

Packages are exempt from duty and the consumption tax if they contain items with a value of 10,000 yen or less. (references)

Japan

A simplified tariff system for low-value imported freight valued at less than 100,000 yen, such as small packages for personal imports, simplifies determination of tariff rates. (references)

Thailand

Japan's Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) merged with the Export-Import Bank of Japan (JEXIM) to become the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) in October 1999 . The JBIC loans to Thailand began in 1969, when the loan/agreements for Lam Dom Noi Hydroelectric Project (I) was signed under the first loan packages . The cumulative commitment amount of ODA loans to Thailand now (as of 03/00) stands at 1,783 billion yen, covering 226 projects. (references)

Travel

Japan

Passengers should exchange some U.S. dollars for yen before leaving the airport. (references)

Burma

Dollars can be exchanged for kyat at the official market counter at Theinbyu Street in Rangoon at the "official market rate" of 450 kyat to the dollar, as of July 2, 2001. The newly licensed five Theinbyu exchange counters (the previous ten holders had their licenses revoked in June 2001) are now allowed to exchange the British pound, the Japanese Yen, the French Franc, the Swiss Franc and the German Mark into FEC (and only then into kyat), effective on June 19, 2001. While there is demand for U.S. dollars, holding dollars is illegal for most Burmese nationals. (references)

Women

Japan

As of November 21, the AWF had collected donations totaling approximately $4.33 million (548 million yen) and given lump sum payments of almost $2.97 million (376 million yen) and a letter of apology signed by the Prime Minister to more than 188 women from the Philippines, Korea, and Taiwan. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

However, seriously injured Japanese veterans are eligible for $632,761 (80 million yen) and a lifetime pension. (references)

Japan

Minimum wage rates, effective during the year, ranged from $18 (2,231 yen) per hour in Tokyo to $11 (1,358 yen) in Aomori prefecture and are considered sufficient to provide a worker and family with a decent standard of living. (references)

Japan

The Public Management Ministry began accepting applications for condolence money in April; the legislation provides for payments of $33,333 (4 million yen) to seriously injured foreign national soldiers and $21,667 (2.6 million yen) to the survivors of those foreign nationals killed in service. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "yen": fall of the yen against the dollar ♦ get a yen ♦ have a yen for ♦ have a yen to ♦ i have to declare yen ♦ japanese yen. Additional references.

Beginning with "yen": yen-backed, yen-based, yen-bay, yen-denominated, yen-dollar.

Ending with "yen": euro-yen, trillion-yen.

Albanian

jen, dëshirë e madhe (desire, longing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنين (craving, longing, loving, nostalgia, yearning), ‏تاق توقا شديدا, ‏الين عملة يابانية, ‏إشتياق (languishment, solicitude, yearning). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремеж (aim, appetite, drift, hankering, intent, intention, search, seeking, striving, zeal), копнея (ache, crave, hanker, hunger, languish, long, pant, pine, sigh, weary, yearn), копнеж (ache, hankering, hunger, urge, yearning), йена, жажда (concupiscence, eagerness, hunger, thirst, yearning), жадувам (ache, desire, hanker, hunger, pant, pine, thirst, weary, yearn). (various references)

Chinese 

日圆, 日元 . (various references)

Czech

touha (ambition, aspiration, craving, desire, hunger, longing, thirst, urge, wish, yearning), jen (just, only). (various references)

Dutch

yen (currency of Japan). (various references)

Farsi 

واحدپول ژاپن , تمایل (Gust, Hang, Inclination, List, Pendulum, Preoccupation, Sentiment, Streak, Tendency, Tenor, Tilt, Turquoise, Vein, Would), اصرار (Perseverance, Tenacity), رغبت شدید. (various references)

French

yen, nostalgie (yearning), avoir très envie. (various references)

German

Yen (currency of Japan). (various references)

Greek 

γιέν, μεγάλη όρεξη, φαντασιώδησ επιθυμία, επιθυμώ ιδιαιτερώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

תשוק�" (craving, desire, itch, lust, passion, rage, thirst, urge), ער�'�" (longing, panting, yearning). (various references)

Hungarian

jen. (various references)

Italian

yen (currency of Japan). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

円 (circle, money, rotund, round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

え�" (bonds, chance, charming, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, fate, garden, hatred, karma, relation, salt, voluptuous, weir). (various references)

Pig Latin

yenay

Portuguese

iene. (various references)

Russian 

сильное желание (hunger, yearning), йена. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

jen, žudnja (avidity, craving, eagerness, hanker, hankering, hunger, longing, lust, thirst). (various references)

Spanish

yen (currency of Japan). (various references)

Swedish

yen (currency of Japan), längtan (aspiration, desire, hankering, hunger, longing, want, wish, yearning). (various references)

Turkish

yen (sleeve, spathe, wristband), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning), özlem (aspiration, craving, hankering, hunger, longing, missing, nostalgia, yearning). (various references)

Ukrainian

�"на, пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, bias, care, desire, flame, fondness, leaning, lust, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thèm thu�"ng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "yen": yenned, yenning, yens, yenta, yentas, yente, yentes. (additional references)

Words ending with "yen": doyen, eyen. (additional references)

Words containing "yen": cayenne, cayenned, cayennes, doyenne, doyennes, doyens, hyena, hyenas, hyenic, hyenine, hyenoid, polyene, polyenes, polyenic, syenite, syenites, syenitic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Yen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayan, ayen, eyc, Eyken, eym, eyn, eyne, fyen, ien, izen, kyen, lyen, myen, nyen, Nyren, ryen, syen, Tyen, uen, Vyon, yahn, yaj, yan, yana, yani, yann, yano, yant, yanz, yaq, yaun, yav, yeb, yec, yed, yee, yeen, yef, yeg, yeh, yei, yein, yej, yek, yem, yena, yene, yeng, yeni, yenj, yenk, yenn, yeno, yent, yenz, yeo, yeon, yeq, yeu, yeun, yev, yewn, yey, yez, ygn, yian, yien, yind, yinn, yinz, yn, yohn, yoin, yonc, yont, yony, ype, ypn, ysen, yun, zyne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: en, ne, ye.

+1 letter: deny, dyne, envy, eyen, eyne, snye, syne, tyne, yean, yens.

+2 letters: bendy, benny, boney, coney, doyen, dynel, dynes, ebony, enemy, enjoy, ensky, entry, envoy, enzym, eying, fenny, ferny, henry, honey, hyena, hymen, inbye, jenny, liney, meany, meiny, money, needy, nelly, nerdy, nervy, netty, newly, newsy, nosey, onery, penny, peony, piney, snyes, syren, teeny, tenty, toney, tyned, tynes, veiny, waney, weeny, wenny, winey, yamen, yeans, yearn, yenta, yente, yince.