fen

1. 1.

   100 fen equal 1 yuan in China

   BroaderChinese monetary unit

   Part ofjiao
2. 2.

   low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

   “thousands of acres of marshland”

   “the fens of eastern England”

   Synonymsmarshmarshlandfenland

   Broaderwetland

   Narrowersalt marsh

Other forms of fen

plural

fens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fen

What does fen mean?

fen means "100 fen equal 1 yuan in China". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fen?

fen has 1 syllable: fen. In IPA it is /ˈfɛn/.

What is another word for fen?

Close synonyms include marsh, marshland, fenland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fen a common word?

fen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.