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On-Yomi: エン — Kun-Yomi: まる.い、まる、まど、まど.か、まろ.やか

Koohii stories:

1) [aircawn] 10-2-2007(154): The shape of a Yen coin.

2) [fuaburisu] 28-1-2006(40): A poor old man is almost killing himself trying to lift a huge glass hood with his cane (using it as a lever), to get to just one yen coin. Note : the kanji refers to a circular, round object, but also to the Japanese currency (pronounced "en").

3) [Matthew] 27-5-2007(27): A pictograph of a bank teller's window. The circles are the coins which are passed back and forth for deposits and withdrawls.

4) [mantixen] 30-9-2008(15): Sometimes I wear my top hat under my hood and it makes my head look like a circle.

5) [meolox] 24-2-2008(14): You may wonder why this character is pronounced 'en' yet is said 'yen' in the west, well this is because when it was first romanized the obsolete ゑ character was used and as such became yen in the west.

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