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yen

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yen
yen1
/yen/, n., pl. yen.
1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbr.: Y
2. a former silver coin of Japan.
[1870-75; < Japn (y)en < Chin yuán YUAN]
yen2
/yen/, n., v., yenned, yenning. Informal.
n.
1. a desire or craving: I had a yen for apple pie.
v.i.
2. to have a craving; yearn.
[1905-10, Amer.; prob. < dial. Chin (OAGuangdong) yáhn, akin to Chin yin craving, addiction]
Syn. 1. longing, hankering, hunger, appetite.

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▪ Japanese currency
  monetary unit of Japan. The yen was divided into 100 sen and into 1,000 rin until 1954, when these tiny denominations were removed from circulation. Despite having suffered enormous devastation during World War II, Japan enjoyed an economic miracle in the second half of the 20th century, during which time the yen became one of the leading international currencies, challenging the pound sterling and the dollar on international markets. The yen's symbol is ¥. The name yen derives from an ancient term for Chinese round coins (yuan).

      First minted in 1869, after the Meiji Restoration, the yen was officially adopted as the basic unit in the monetary reform of 1871. In that year the government suspended the exchange of clan notes, paper money that feudal lords had issued and circulated since the late 16th century. (According to a Ministry of Finance survey of 1868, a total of 1,694 denominations of clan money had been issued by 244 clans, 14 magistrates' offices, and 9 shogunate retainers during the Tokugawa (Tokugawa period) period [1603–1867].) By 1879 the replacement of clan notes by the yen-based government notes had been completed.

      The Bank of Japan has the exclusive authority to issue banknotes and coins. Banknotes are issued in denominations ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 yen. The obverse of each note contains an image of an important cultural figure in Japanese history. For example, novelist Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) appears on the 1,000-yen note; author Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978–c. 1014), whose Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji (Tale of Genji, The)) is considered one of the world's oldest novels, is on the 2,000-yen note; and author and educator Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901), who was one of the most powerful nongovernmental figures in Japan, is featured on the 10,000-yen note. Coin denominations range from 1 to 500 yen.

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Фильмы

  • Girls of All the World, 1975 — About the International Meeting of Girls which took place in the city of Moscow.
  • Hearty Thanks., 1978 — About the joint space flight of the astronauts of the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, V. Bykovsky and Z. Yen.
  • And the Dawn Uprose, 1981 — The film tells how socialistic countries appeared after the World War II.