yuan

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.

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

yuan (plural yuan or yuans)

1. The basic unit of money in China.
   • 1940, Carlson, Evans Fordyce, “Test Tube for New China”, in Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle For Existence By A U. S. Marine who Lived & Moved with The People‎, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, OCLC 989348133, page 219:

     Sung paused to show me some of the notes. They were in issues of five yuan (a Chinese dollar, equal at this time to a little less than one American dollar), one yuan, twenty and ten cent denominations.

   • 1998, Dru C. Gladney, “Getting Rich is Not So Glorious: Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China”, in Robert W. Hefner, editor, Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 97-36705, OCLC 37513128, page 110:

     Donations to the mosque come from a village considered fairly poor by regional standards, with an average annual income of 300 yuan (about U.S. $100) per household. The 1982 average per capita annual income in Yongning County was substantially higher, 539 yuan according to the Population Census Office (1987:206).

• kuai, kwai (informal)

• renminbi
• CNY
• RMB

• Aynu, anyu

Borrowed from Mandarin 元 (yuán).

• IPA^(key): /jɥan/, /ɥan/

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (Chinese currency)

• “yuan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

yuan

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

• 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.

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

1. currency used in China (since 1971)

• “yuan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• iuane

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (currency unit of China)

From German Yuan.

yuan m (plural yuani)

1. yuan

From Mandarin 元 (yuán).

• Rhymes: -an

yuan m (plural yuanes)

1. yuan

• “yuan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014