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
- Gold yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Republic of China between 1948 and 1949
- 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
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
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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