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Now let's take a look at a new grammar point
In this grammar video, we will look at how to tell prices, how to express amounts
of money
Chinese currency is called Renminbi, spelled R-E-N-M-I-N-B-I, Renminbi
Often it's shortened to RMB. Its official code is CNY, which is like China Yuan,
CNY
So how do you express these amounts in Chinese?
5 Renminbi, 15 Renminbi, 50 Renminbi, and 100 Renminbi
Now is it going to be useful for you to express amounts of money when you go to
China?
Yeah, of course, right? Because you have to buy stuff
Now let's turn to page 59 of our textbook and take a look at note number 4
and see how we express amounts of money in Chinese
As the textbook says, Renminbi is expressed with Yuan
So 5 Renminbi will be 5 Yuan, 15, 15 Yuan, 50, 50 Yuan, and 100, 100 Yuan
In colloquial Chinese, we typically change Yuan to Kuai
Kuai literally means a piece
Back in the days, we used silver pieces as money, right?
So nowadays, we still use a piece to indicate an amount of money
5 Kuai is 5 Renminbi, 15 Kuai is 15 Renminbi, 50 Kuai is 50 Renminbi, 100 Kuai is
100 Renminbi
5 Kuai, 50 Kuai, 15 Kuai, 100 Kuai
2 Kuai, 3 Kuai, 4 Kuai, I have 4 Kuai
Okay, quick practice, how do you say 1 Renminbi?
1 Kuai or 1 Yuan
How about 99 Renminbi?
99 Kuai or 99 Yuan
Chinese people abroad also refer to other currencies as Kuais
If I go to the United States, I'll still use 2 Kuai to refer to 2 American dollars
Just because Kuai is like a...
It's like the word dollar
It's very generic, it can refer to any kind of currency
Thanks for watching
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