Re: The Currency Symbol of China

From: Barry Caplan (bcaplan@i18n.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 16:53:47 EDT

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At 10:08 PM 9/30/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>"Yen" is an ancient "on" pronunciation for U+5186; today it's pronounced
>"en."
>
>Stefan

Really? I have no sources either way, but I always assumed "yen" was a Western transliteration of "en", since there is no "ye" entry in the kana table.

Barry Caplan
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