Yuan

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Yuan may refer to:

Currency

  • 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

  • "Government branch" or "Court" (Chinese: 院; pinyin: Yuàn), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.

Government of Taiwan

  • Control Yuan
  • Examination Yuan
  • Executive Yuan
  • Judicial Yuan
  • Legislative Yuan

Government of Imperial China

Dynasties

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Wǎn (宛) and pronounced as Yuān in Yayan, a city in China

Other uses

  • 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

  • 圓 (disambiguation), the character where Yuan comes from
  • Yen, the currency of Japan
  • Korean won, the currency of Korea
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