セン
Meanings
Noun
1. sen (hundredth of a yen)
Here, fifteen sen gets you a pretty decent lunch.
2. coin made of non-precious materials
3. one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency)
4. one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (41 in total)
farewell gift
admission fee (at the theatre, etc.); stall space fee (at an outdoor market, etc.); stake (in gambling); bet
gate money; admission fee
money; cash
large bathhouse with many different services; deluxe public bath
monetary offering; offertory
change (for a purchase)
copper coin
tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar); tossed coin; (online) tipping; tip; donation
coin of the smallest value; poorly-minted coin
wages; pay
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
one-mon coin
Song dynasty copper coin
crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)
ill-gotten money; bad coin
without money; no need for money
toll; transit fee
bathhouse charge
commission; brokerage
fee charged by a gambling house; house cut; banker's fee
small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift
silver coin
accommodation fees; hotel charges; room charges
coins; small change
commission; brokerage; wages; fee for a prostitute or geisha
six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)
toy coin (Edo period)
perforated coin
rice and money; money to purchase rice
knife money; bronze coin of ancient China, shaped like an opened straight razor
tobacco money; money to buy a pack of cigarettes
bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods
meagre sum of money
perforated coin
lots of money; riches; wealth; rich person; wealthy person
rectangular figures
pillow money; pillow tip; tip left by the pillow for the room maid
labor charge; wages; pay
Examples (3 in total)
I think five sen is fine, though.
Here, fifteen sen gets you a pretty decent lunch.
The launch price was three yen fifty sen apiece.