Illustration: At a neighborhood merchant's wooden counter, a child has painstakingly arranged one hundred small copper coins into ten neat rows of ten. The merchant slides a single large silver yen coin toward the child while drawing the entire copper array toward himself, making the exchange visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

銭せん

sen

sen, one hundredth of a yen

Still appears in expressions such as 一銭もない. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

１銭せんたりともむだにしないのが彼かれの信条しんじょうだ。
He makes a religion of never wasting a penny.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれの古ふるい車くるまじゃ、一いち銭せんにもならないよ。
His old clunker isn’t worth anything.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
身分みぶんを明あかさない条件じょうけんで日給にっきゅう48銭せんの職工しょっこうとなる。
He became a mechanic with a daily wage of 48 sen under the condition that his noble birth would remain hidden.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 銭

銭coin; .01 yenOnセン・ゼンKunぜに・すき

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