yuan
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4.5
- noun
- /juˈɑn/
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yuan
- Even a moderate appreciation of the yuan would make little difference to most U.S. firms and workers.
- billion yuan
- million yuan
- Chinese yuan
This deal was in yuan and the Saudis accepted the yuan.
- This deal was in yuan and the Saudis accepted the yuan.
- And more importantly, you can put in yuan and get gold out.
- Or will there be like the euro versus the versus the dollar versus the yuan or something like that?
- It has to share that role with the the Japanese yen or the Chinese yuan or the European euro.
- And it is a hedge away from that devalued yuan.
- And the US dollar is debt, the rupee is debt, the yuan is debt, the peso, the yen is debt.
- Today, the only entity in the world that can exchange the Chinese yuan is the People's Bank of China, right?
- So what a surprise then, that the Saudis are starting to distance themselves from America now, using the Chinese yuan for some oil contracts.
- Because he was desperate to pass the buck, or at least exchange it for some yuan.
Examples
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Here, that's a half-million yuan, more if I exchange it on the streets.
Fiction book (1996) -
Today, the only entity in the world that can exchange the Chinese yuan is the People's Bank of China.
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- The yuan will fall.
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- The yuan will drop.
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And more importantly, you can put in yuan and get gold out.
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Today, the only entity in the world that can exchange the Chinese yuan is the People's Bank of China, right?
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This deal was in yuan and the Saudis accepted the yuan.
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The dollar has lost its sheen; demand for the yuan as a reserve currency is growing.
Academic text (2011) -
Investment in the project eventually exceeded 300 billion yuan, despite the initial budget being set at 190 billion.
Academic text (2014) -
In 2001 and 2002, investors placed billions of yuan in new equity-oriented mutual funds.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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5.1
The official money of China, also called the yuan
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9.9
An informal word for Chinese money called yuan
A unit of money that people use in China, like the yuan
Compounds
A ruling family in China from 1279 to 1368 that was started by the Mongols under Kublai Khan
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word yuan comes from the Chinese word yuán, which means 'round'. It first named round coins, so today yuan is the name of China's main money unit, equal to 10 jiao or 100 fen, and it is like the Japanese word yen.