On: Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules

[seanmcdirmid]

This is also why we get 600 RMB every month on a card in China for lunch. So Microsoft does offer free lunches to some employees, just not in the states.

The 万 is used in China as well, confusing as heck when talking about home prices.

[TazeTSchnitzel → seanmcdirmid]

Funny how using 円 for both Yen and Yuan carried over to the dollar-style currency symbol, ¥, which is also shared.

[seanmcdirmid → TazeTSchnitzel]

I rarely see the yen symbol used, I don't even know how to type it, instead we have 人民币, 块, 元。

[TazeTSchnitzel → seanmcdirmid]

Oh, I know it's not used in actual Chinese or Japanese text. It's more used in other languages in place of the hanzi/kanji.