How to Say ‘Thirty-two yuan’ in Simplified Chinese
三十二块
sān shí èr kuài
[sānshí'èr kuài]
🇨🇳 In China: 块 (kuài) is how people actually say "yuan" out loud. You'll see 元 written on price tags, but you'll hear 块 at the counter.
Phrase Breakdown
三十二
sān shí èr
[sānshí'èr]
thirty-two
The number 32, formed as three-ten-two.
我们班有三十二个学生。
Our class has thirty-two students.
块
kuài
[kuài]
yuan (colloquial)
Spoken unit of Chinese money, same as 元.
这杯咖啡二十块。
This coffee is twenty yuan.
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