幣

Meaning

幣 centers on objects used in exchange or offering: from physical cash and gifts to ritual cloth and paper offerings. The 'bad habit' and 'humble prefix' senses are specialized extensions of the idea of presenting something.

• 紙幣しへい
  N3

  paper money; note; bill

• 貨幣かへい
  N1

  money; currency; coin

• 幣へい

  staff with plaited paper streamers

• 幣まい

  reward; present; gift; offering to the gods

• 造幣局ぞうへいきょく

  mint; mint bureau

• 造幣局ぞうへいきょく

  Japan Mint

• 貨幣価値かへいかち

  currency value

• 造幣ぞうへい

  coinage; mintage

• 不換紙幣ふかんしへい

  inconvertible paper money; fiat money

• 人民幣じんみんへい

  renminbi (currency of China); Chinese yuan

• 偽造紙幣ぎぞうしへい

  fake bill

• 切り幣きりぬさ

  paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

• 別格官幣社べっかくかんぺいしゃ

  Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)

• 商品貨幣しょうひんかへい

  commodity money

• 国幣社こくへいしゃ

  shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)

• 大幣おおぬさ

  streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies)

• 奉幣ほうへい

  offering a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

• 奉幣使ほうへいし

  imperial messenger to a shrine; envoy returning courtesies

• 官幣中社かんぺいちゅうしゃ

  national shrine of middle grade

• 官幣大社かんぺいたいしゃ

  national shrine of major grade

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