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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Japanese unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the yen.
  • noun A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the primary unit of Indonesia and various other Southeast Asian countries.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given in Hindustan to a unit of weight equal to one kilogram
  • noun to a unit of volume equal to the liter. These units and their multiples were legalized in 1871, mainly for use by the railways.
  • noun An abbreviation of Senate or Senator.
  • A Middle English variant of sine.
  • noun A Japanese copper or bronze coin, equal to the one-hundredth part of a yen or dollar; a Japanese cent. One- and two-sen copper pieces and five-, ten-, twenty-, and fifty-sen silver pieces are in circulation.
  • noun An abbreviation of senior.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete Since.
  • noun A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The unit of Japanese currency, equal to 1/100 yen.
  • noun A coin worth one yen.
  • noun Yorkshire self

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese, from Middle Chinese tsɦian, money, coin (also the source of Mandarin qián).]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Indonesian senti, sen, ultimately from cent.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Japanese .

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