yuan

See also: Yuan, yuán, yuàn, Yuán, yuān, Yuăn, and yuǎn

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 元 (yuán), from 圓／圆 (yuán, “circle > round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Compare Japanese 円(えん) (en), Korean 원 (圓, won). Doublet of yen and won.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɑːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌjuˈɑn/, /ˈjuən/

Noun

yuan (plural yuan or yuans)

1. The basic unit of money in China.

Synonyms

• kuai, kwai (informal)

Translations

basic unit of money in China

• Arabic: يُوَان‎ m (yuwān)
• Armenian: յուան (hy) (yuan)
• Belarusian: юа́нь (juánʹ)
• Bulgarian: юа́н m (juán)
• Catalan: iuan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元 (jyun⁴), 蚊 (yue) (man^4-1) (colloquial)

  Dungan: йүан (yüan)

  Mandarin: 圓 (zh), 圆 (zh) (yuán) (formal); 元 (zh) (yuán) (less formal); 塊 (zh), 块 (zh) (kuài) (colloquial); 人民幣 (zh), 人民币 (zh) (rénmínbì) (Chinese currency in general)

  Min Nan: 箍 (zh-min-nan) (kho͘)

• Czech: jüan (cs)
• Esperanto: juano
• Estonian: jüaan
• Finnish: juan (fi), yuan (fi)
• French: yuan (fr) m
• Hebrew: יְוֵּאן‎ m (yuan)
• Hindi: युआन (yuān)
• Hungarian: jüan (hu)
• Italian: yuan (it)
• Japanese: 元 (ja) (げん, gen), ユアン (yuan), 人民元 (じんみんげん, jinmingen) (Chinese currency in general)
• Kazakh: юән (ywän), қуай (qway)

• Khmer: យ័ន (yuon)
• Korean: 원 (ko) (won) (圓 (ko)), 유안 (yuan), 위안 (ko) (wian)
• Latvian: juaņs m
• Lithuanian: juanis m
• Macedonian: ју́ан m (júan)
• Malay: yuan (ms)
• Maori: wāna
• Marathi: युआन (yuān)
• Mongolian: юань (mn) (juanʹ)
• Persian: یوان‎ (yuân)
• Polish: juan (pl) m
• Portuguese: yuan (pt) m
• Russian: юа́нь (ru) m (juánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јуан m

  Roman: juan m

• Slovak: jüan m
• Spanish: yuan (es)
• Thai: หยวน (th) (yǔuan)
• Ukrainian: юа́нь (uk) m (juánʹ)
• Uyghur: يۈەن‎ (yüen), كوي‎ (koy)
• Vietnamese: nguyên (vi)
• Zhuang: maenz

See also

• renminbi
• CNY
• RMB

Anagrams

• Aynu, anyu

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French

Etymology

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɥan/, /ɥan/

Noun

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (Chinese currency)

Further reading

• “yuan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Mandarin

Romanization

yuan

1. nonstandard spelling of yuān
2. nonstandard spelling of yuán
3. nonstandard spelling of yuǎn
4. nonstandard spelling of yuàn

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

yuan m (definite singular yuanen, indefinite plural yuanar, definite plural yuanane)

1. (numismatics) currency used in China (since 1971)

References

• “yuan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iuane

Noun

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (currency unit of China)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟ͡ʝwan/, [ɟ͡ʝwãn]

Noun

yuan m (plural yuanes)

1. yuan