Yen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.

   “Passing by those clauses of it which demand no notice, we arrive at that which provides that "each proposal (for purchase) must state the price per picul of rice in gold yen." But why in gold yen, a coin as yet so scarce as to be almost beyond the ken of the foreign merchant?”

2. isim A coin or note worth one yen.

   “When banks lend, they create money out of nothing, without withdrawing it from other parts of the economy. This way, fiscal policy would not have crowded out private-sector activity yen by yen, as actually happened.”

3. isim A strong desire, urge, or yearning.

   “humankind's yen for knowledge”

4. fiil To have a strong desire for.

   “Yenning, groaning, longing after.”

5. isim Opium.
6. özel isim Alternative form of Yan (ancient kingdom)

   “9. Kingdom of Yen 燕 Táking situated in lat. 39° 54' N., long. 116° 28' E., one of the districts of Shuntien fú in Chihlí, now occupies the site of the capital of the ancient kingdom of Yen, the most northern part of the empire under the reign of the Chau dynasty.”