yuan

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

English

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

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

Noun

yuan (plural yuan or yuans)

1. The basic unit of money in China.

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:

  Mandarin: 圓／圆 (zh) (yuán), 圆 (zh) (yuán) (formal); 元 (zh) (yuán) (less formal); 塊／块 (zh) (kuài), 块 (zh) (kuài) (colloquial); 人民幣／人民币 (zh) (rénmínbì), 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 (üän), қуай (quai)
• Khmer: យ័ន (yuon)
• Korean: 원 (ko) (won) (圓 (ko)), 유안 (yuan), 위안 (ko) (wian)
• Latvian: juaņs m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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 (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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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

• 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.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iuane

Noun

yuan m (plural s)

1. yuan (currency unit of China)

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 元 (yuán).

Pronunciation

•  

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝwan/ [ˈɟ͡ʝwãn]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝwan/ [ˈɟ͡ʝwãn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃwan/ [ˈʃwãn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒwan/ [ˈʒwãn]

Noun

yuan m (plural yuanes)

1. yuan