Yuan Explained

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", the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.

Government of Taiwan

Government of Imperial China

Xuanzheng Yuan, or Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs during the Yuan dynasty
Lifan Yuan during the Qing dynasty

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 (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