Illustration: At a neighborhood produce shop, a customer separates a thin paper banknote from several others in an open wallet and lays it in the cashier's shallow payment tray. The note bends between the customer's fingertips, showing its flexible paper form.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

紙し幣へい

shihei

banknote, paper money

Example sentences

  1. ５ポンド紙幣しへいをお持もちですか。

    Do you have a five-pound note?

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  2. この１０ドル紙幣しへいをくずしてくれませんか。

    Could you give me some change for this ten dollar bill?

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  3. 私わたしは１０ドル紙幣しへいをなくした。

    I lost a ten-dollar note.

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Kanji in 紙幣

  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ
  • 幣cash; bad habitOnヘイKunぬさ

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