one sen; one-hundredth of a yen; small amount of money
Historical currency unit (1/100 yen), now obsolete. Often used figuratively to mean a trivial sum, as in 'not a single sen'.
In the old days, you could buy cheap sweets for one sen.
He didn't pay a single sen.
Standard kanji spelling for the historical currency unit.
Numerical variant, sometimes seen in older texts or price listings.
Compound of 一 (one) and 銭 (sen, a hundredth of a yen). The sen was introduced in the Meiji period and withdrawn from circulation in 1953.