rin
rin — noun
1. a unit of money that was once used in Japan, worth one tenth of a sen, or one th
1.名詞
釋義
a unit of money that was once used in Japan, worth one tenth of a sen, or one thousandth of a yen
例句
Nora bought a rare Meiji-era coin worth three rin at an auction.
collocation: worth [number] rin
The old household records listed the rice price as five rin per kilogram.
collocation: price as [number] rin
A single rin could buy a small piece of candy in nineteenth-century Tokyo.
Hao examined a silver coin worth twenty rin that had belonged to his great-grandfather.
The museum label explained that one rin was a tiny fraction of a yen.
用法筆記
This currency unit was used in Japan during the Meiji period and is now only encountered in historical documents, old price records, and coin-collecting contexts.
常見錯誤
❌I paid five rin for a coffee in Tokyo yesterday.
✅Rin was a Japanese unit that has not been used since the late 1800s
💡Japan now uses the yen.' — rin is a historical term, not a modern currency.