fen
pronunciation
How to pronounce fen in British English:
UK [fen]
How to pronounce fen in American English:
US [fɛn]
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- Noun:
- 100 fen equal 1 yuan
- low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Word Origin
- fen (n.)
- "low land covered wholly or partly by water," Old English fenn "mud, mire, dirt; fen, marsh, moor," from Proto-Germanic *fanjam- "swamp, marsh" (cognates: Old Saxon feni, Old Frisian fenne, Middle Dutch venne, Dutch veen, Old High German fenna, German Fenn "marsh," Old Norse fen, Gothic fani "mud"), from PIE *pen- "swamp" (cognates: Gaulish anam "water," Sanskrit pankah "bog, marsh, mud," Old Prussian pannean "swampland"). Italian and Spanish fango, Old French fanc, French fange "mud" are loan-words from Germanic. The native Latin word was limus or lutum.
Example
- 1. I gave him a yuan , and he gave me20 fen change .
- 2. Ninety yuan , six jiao and five fen .
- 3. Line off the fen , jiao and yuan .
- 4. A person can buy a bowl of noodles for a few fen . That is about a penny in us dollars .
- 5. He studied computer science at cambridge-dropping out to start his career in nearby " silicon fen " .