rin

American  

[rin] / rɪn /

noun

plural

rin

1. a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.

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Etymology

Origin of rin

1870–75; < Japanese ri ( n ) < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese lí; cf. likin

Example Sentences

Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin, Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie; Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, Or til a reed ourblawin with the win.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2012

His father, Piano Virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, had trained him as a musician, and he turned out to have a natural tal ent for the language of hand and rin gers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them.

From Time Magazine Archive

And wi' that I began the ditty; but, as it has never been in prent, I had better rin owre it, that you may be able to judge o' its fitness for accomplishing my end.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

Li, lē, n. a Chinese weight, equal to the one-thousandth of a liang or ounce, and nominally to the Japanese rin: a Chinese mile, equal to rather more than one-third of an English mile.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various