How to Say ‘About thirty yuan’ in Simplified Chinese
三十来块
sān shí lái kuài
[sānshí lái kwy]
💬 Usage Tip: Put 来 after a round number and it means "a little over": 二十来个 "twenty-odd". 块 (kuài) is the spoken word for yuan.
Phrase Breakdown
三十来
sān shí lái
[sānshí lái]
about thirty; thirty-odd
来 after a number means 'approximately' or 'a little over'.
他三十来岁。
He is about thirty years old.
块
kuài
[kwy]
kuai; yuan (informal measure of money)
A common spoken word for Chinese currency units.
这杯咖啡二十块，不贵。
This coffee is 20 kuai, not expensive.
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