yuan

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

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Mandarin 元 (yuán), from 圓 (yuán "circle" > "round coin") referring to the piece of eight (compare Japanese en 円, Korean won 원).

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌjuːˈɑn/, /ˈjuːən/

NounEdit

yuan (plural yuan or yuans)

1. The basic unit of money in China.

See alsoEdit

• renminbi
• CNY
• RMB

TranslationsEdit

basic unit of money in China

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

  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)

• 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)
• Marathi: युआन (yuān)
• Mongolian: юань (mn) (juanʹ)
• Persian: یوان‏‎ (yuân)
• Polish: juan (pl) m
• Portuguese: yuan m
• Russian: юа́нь (ru) m (juánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јуан m

  Roman: juan m

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

AnagramsEdit

• Aynu, anyu

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

NounEdit

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (Chinese currency)

Further readingEdit

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

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MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

yuan

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

Usage notesEdit

• 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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PortugueseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• iuane

NounEdit

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (currency unit of China)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

NounEdit

yuan m (plural yuanes)

1. yuan