Japanese Units of Measurement - Money

Money

The names of old money live on in Japanese proverbs such as haya oki wa san mon no toku, literally "Waking early gets you three mon", comparable to the English language proverb, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Table of money units
Unit Equivalent to
Romanized Kanji
1 mon 文
1 hiki 疋 10 mon
1 kanmon 貫文 100 hiki

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