jiao
/dʒaʊ
/noun (plural same)
A monetary unit of China, equal to one tenth of a yuan.The latter is 1 yuan or maybe only 5 jiao cheaper....
- After paying my two jiao, I started walking up the stairs to the gents' section.
- This story from two years ago says ‘as little as two jiao.’
Origin
From Chinese jiǎo.
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