Yuan (currency) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-12

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Yuan (currency)


00:01:58 1 Etymology, writing and pronunciation
00:02:45 1.1 Alternative words
00:03:08 1.2 Related currency units
00:03:45 2 Early history
00:04:50 2.1 Date of first "yuan" coins by province
00:07:22 3 Republican era
00:07:40 4 Civil War period
00:13:59 5 Today
00:16:25 6 Connection with dollar
00:18:00 7 See also
00:18:44 8 References



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The yuan (; sign: ¥; Chinese: 元; pinyin: yuán; [ɥæ̌n] (listen)) is the base unit of a number of former and present-day currencies in Chinese.
A yuan (Chinese: 元; pinyin: yuán) is also known colloquially as a kuai (Chinese: 块; pinyin: kuài; literally: "lump"; originally a lump of silver).  One yuan is divided into 10 jiao (Chinese: 角; pinyin: jiǎo; literally: "corner") or colloquially mao (Chinese: 毛; pinyin: máo "feather"). One jiao is divided into 10 fen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn; literally: "small portion").
Today, it usually refers to the primary unit of account of the renminbi, the currency of the People's Republic of China. It is also used as a synonym of that currency, especially in international contexts – the ISO 4217 standard code for renminbi is CNY, an abbreviation of "Chinese yuan". (A similar case is the use of the terms sterling to designate British currency and pound for the unit of account.)
The symbol for the yuan (元) is also used in Chinese to refer to the currency units of Japan (yen) and Korea (won), and is used to translate the currency unit dollar as well as some other currencies; for example, the United States dollar is called Meiyuan (Chinese: 美元; pinyin: Měiyuán; literally: "American yuan") in Chinese, and the euro is called Ouyuan (Chinese: 欧元; pinyin: Ōuyuán; literally: "European yuan"). When used in English in the context of the modern foreign exchange market, the Chinese yuan (CNY) refers to the renminbi (RMB), which is the official currency used in mainland China.
Having been in use for at least 2000 years, the yuan was the first decimal currency system. It is also the first to use metal coins and bank notes, which significantly shaped the global financial system.