Yuan (currency) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(currency)In Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, yuán literally means a "round object" or "round coin". During the Qing Dynasty, the yuan was a round coin made of silver. In informal contexts, the word is written with the simplified Chinese character 元, that literally means "beginning". In formal contexts it is written with the simplified character 圆 or with the traditional version 圓, both meaning "round", after the shape of the coins. These are all pronounced yuán i…
Renminbi - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RenminbiThe yuan ( Chinese: 元 or simplified Chinese: 圆; traditional Chinese: 圓; pinyin: yuán) is the basic unit of the renminbi, but the word is also used to refer to the Chinese currency generally, especially in international contexts.
Renminbi - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenminbiThe various currencies called yuan or dollar issued in mainland China as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore were all derived from the Spanish American silver dollar, which China imported in large quantities from Spanish America from the 16th to 20th centuries. The first locally minted silver dollar or yuan accepted all over Qing dynasty China (1644–1912) was the silver dragon d…
Yuan (currency) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yuan_(currency)A yuan (Chinese: 圓/元; pinyin: yuán) is also known colloquially as a kuai (Chinese: 块; pinyin: kuài; lit. 'lump'; originally a lump of silver). One yuan is divided into 10 jiao (Chinese: 角; pinyin: jiǎo; lit. 'corner') or colloquially mao (Chinese: 毛; pinyin: máo "feather").