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Word Source: World Currency 2: Asia

Following in the series of world monetary units, here is a word set for currency in Asia.

Again, these vary widely through the decades in spelling and relations to other units, but there should be some basic usefulness for building vocabulary.

AFGHANI (Afghanistan, 100 puls)
ANNA (India, 12 pies)
ATT (Laos)
AVO (Macau)
BAHT (Thailand, 100 satangs)
CHHERTUM or CHETRUM (Bhutan)
DIRAM (Tajikistan)
DONG (Vietnam, 100 xu)
HWAN (Korea, 100 won, 100 JIAO)
JIAO (Korea)
KIP (Laos, 100 atts)
KOPECK or KOPEK (Russia, see ruble)
KYAT (Myanmar, 100 pyas)
LAARI (Maldives)
MOHAR- (Nepal, until 1932, 128 dams)
MONGO (Mongolia)
NGULTRUM (Bhutan, 100 chhertum)
PAISA plural PAISE, a.k.a. PICE plural PICE (India)
PATACA (Macau, 100 avos)
PIASTER or PIASTRE (French Indochina, 100 cent)
PUL (Afghanistan)
PYA (Myanmar)
RENMINBI (China, a term for Chinese money in general, not a specific denomination)
RIEL (Cambodia)
RUBLE (Tajikistan, 100 tanga)
RUFIYAA (Maldives, 100 laari)
RUPEE (India, 100 paisa) and many other countries
RUPIAH (Indonesia, 100 sen)
SATANG (Thailand)
SEN (Indonesia)
SOM (Kyrgystan, 100 tyiyn; Uzbekistan, 100 tiyin)
SOMONI (Tajikistan, 100 dirams)
TAKA (Bangladesh, 100 paisa)
TANGA (Tajikistan)
TENGE (Kazakhstan, 100 tiyin)
TICAL (Thailand, replaced by the baht in 1928)
TIYIN (Uzkebistan)
TUGRIK (Mongolia, 100 mongos)
TYIYN (Kyrgystan)
WON (Korea)
XU (Vietnam)

(-) means the word is not in the Scrabble USA dictionary.


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