Yuan
Appearance
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Yuan may refer to:
Currency
[edit]- Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan
- Renminbi, the current currency used in mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan
- New Taiwan dollar, the current currency used in Taiwan, whose basic unit is yuán in Mandarin
- Manchukuo yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo
- Yen and yuan sign (¥), symbol used for yuan currency in Latin scripts
Governmental organ
[edit]- "Government branch" or "Court" (Chinese: 院; pinyin: Yuàn), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.
Government of Taiwan
[edit]Government of Imperial China
[edit]- Xuanzheng Yuan, or Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs during the Yuan dynasty
- Lifan Yuan during the Qing dynasty
Dynasties
[edit]- Yuan dynasty (元朝), a dynasty of China ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan
- Northern Yuan (北元), the Yuan dynasty's successor state in northern China and the Mongolian Plateau
People and languages
[edit]- Yuan (surname), the transliteration of a number of Chinese family names (e.g. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰, 遠)
- Yuan Haowen (元好問; 1190–1257), Chinese poet, author, and official
- Thai Yuan, a people of Northern Thailand
- Yuan language, commonly known as Northern Thai language, language of the Thai Yuan people
Places
[edit]- Yu'an District, in Anhui, China
- Yuan River (沅江 or 沅水), one of the four largest rivers in Hunan, a tributary of the Yangtze River
- Nanyang, Henan, abbreviated (宛) and pronounced as Yuān in Yayan, a city in China
Other uses
[edit]- Yuanfen (缘分), a Chinese or Buddhist concept that means the predetermined principle that dictates a person's relationships and encounters
- Type 041 submarine, PLAN Yuan-class submarines
- Yuan Qi (TCM), in traditional Chinese medicine
- Yuan (Tales of Symphonia) (ユアン), a character from Tales of Symphonia
- BYD Yuan (元), a car
- Tao Yúan (Shaman King) (Tao En), a character in Shaman King
See also
[edit]- 圓 (disambiguation), the character where Yuan comes from
- Yen, the currency of Japan
- Korean won, the currency of Korea