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Yuan

Yuan (元 or 圆 Pinyin yuán) is, in Chinese language, the base unit of currency, for example, US dollar is Mei yuan (美元). However, in international context, they may refer one of the four Chinese currencies:

Other meanings:

  1. Yuan Dynasty, Mongol ruling period of China
  2. Yuan, one of several Chinese family names; 袁, 元, 苑, 阮, 原, 源, 爰 in Mandarin; 垣, 玄 in Cantonese.
  3. Thai Yuan, a people of Northern Thailand
  4. Yuàn (院), a branch of government stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of China (now on Taiwan), e.g. Legislative Yuan
  5. Yuan River(沅江 or 沅水), one of the four largest rivers in Hunan, a tributary of Yangtze River.


This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.

Referenced By

Chinese Family Name | Chinese surname | Choi Yong | Emperor Hongwu | Hongwu | Hongwu Emperor | Hongwu Emperor of China | Hung-wu | King Gongmin of Goryeo | List of China-related topics M-Z | Ming Tai Zu | Zhu Yuanzhang

 

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