yuan
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 元 (yuán), from 圓 (yuán "circle" > "round coin") referring to the piece of eight (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese en 円, Korean won 원).
Pronunciation
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Noun
yuan (plural yuan or yuans)
Translations
basic unit of money in China
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See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 元 (yuán).
Pronunciation
Noun
yuan m (plural yuans)
- yuan (Chinese currency)
Further reading
- “yuan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Mandarin
Romanization
yuan
- nonstandard spelling of yuān
- nonstandard spelling of yuán
- nonstandard spelling of yuǎn
- nonstandard spelling of yuàn
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
yuan m (plural s)
- yuan (currency unit of China)
Spanish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 元 (yuán).
Pronunciation
Noun
yuan m (plural yuanes)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Mandarin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Currencies
- French terms derived from Mandarin
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Currencies
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin pinyin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish terms derived from Mandarin
- Spanish 1-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Currency