Yuan may refer to:

Currency

Yuan (currency) The yuan (; sign: ¥; ; ) is the base unit of a number of former and present-day currencies in Chinese. A ''yuan'' () is also known colloquially as a ''kuai'' (; originally a lump of silver). One ''yuan'' is divided into 10 ''jiao'' () or ...

, the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan **

Renminbi The renminbi (; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's most traded currencies, ranking as the fifth most traded currency in the world as of April 2022. ...

, the current currency used in mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan **

New Taiwan dollar The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT) is the official currency of Taiwan. The New Taiwan dollar has been the currency of Taiwan since 1949, when it replaced the Old Taiwan dollar, at a rate of 40,000 old dollars ...

, the current currency used in Taiwan, whose basic unit is yuán in Mandarin **

Manchukuo yuan The Manchukuo yuan ( zh, 滿洲國圓, ''Mǎnzhōuguóyuán'') was the official unit of currency of the Empire of Manchuria, from June 1932 to August 1945. The monetary unit was based on one basic pure silver patron of 23.91 grams. It replaced t ...

, the unit of currency that was used in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo

Governmental organ

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Government branch Separation of powers refers to the division of a state (polity), state's government into branches, each with separate, independent power (social and political), powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflic ...

" or "Court" (), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.

Government of Taiwan

Control Yuan The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Prior to constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the Control Yuan, along with National Assembly (electoral college) and the Legislative ...

Examination Yuan The Examination Yuan is the civil service commission branch, in charge of validating the qualification of civil servants, of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It has a president, a vice president, and seven to nine members, all ...

Executive Yuan The Executive Yuan () is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Its leader is the Premier, who is appointed by the President of the Republic of China, and requires confirmation by the Legislative Yuan. ...

Judicial Yuan The Judicial Yuan () is the judicial branch of the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan.''See'' Constitution arts. 77-82, ''available at'' ''See'' Additional Articles of the Constitution art. 5, ''available at'' It runs a Constitution ...

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...

Government of Imperial China

* Xuanzheng Yuan, or

Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs __NOTOC__ The Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs, or Xuanzheng Yuan () was a government agency of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China to handle Buddhist affairs across the empire in addition to managing the territory of Tibet. It was original ...

during the Yuan dynasty *

Lifan Yuan The Lifan Yuan (; ; Mongolian: Гадаад Монголын төрийг засах явдлын яам, ''γadaγadu mongγul un törü-yi jasaqu yabudal-un yamun'') was an agency in the government of the Qing dynasty of China which administered ...

during the Qing dynasty

Dynasties

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...

(元朝), a dynasty of China ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan **

Northern Yuan dynasty The Northern Yuan () was a dynastic regime ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan based in the Mongolian Plateau. It existed as a rump state after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368 and lasted until its conquest by the Jurchen-led Later Jin ...

(北元), the Yuan dynasty's successor state in northern China and the Mongolian Plateau

People and languages

Yuan (surname) Yuan ( 袁, ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu pinyin) or Yüen2" ( Wade-Giles). Other romanizations include Yeu (Shanghainese), Ion ( Chang-Du Gan), ...

, the transliteration of a number of Chinese family names (e.g. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰, 遠) **

Yuan Haowen Yuan Haowen () also known as Yuan Yishan (遺山/遗山) or “Yuan of Yi Mountain” (1190–1257) was a poet from Xinzhou, Shanxi, Xinzhou, in what is now Shanxi province, noted for his poems in the ''Ci (poetry), ci'' and the ''Chinese Sanqu poe ...

(元好問; 1190–1257), Chinese poet, author, and official *

Thai Yuan The Northern Thai people or Tai Yuan ( th, ไทยวน, ), self-designation ''khon mu(e)ang'' ( nod, , คนเมือง meaning "people of the (cultivated) land" or "people of our community") are a Tai ethnic group, native to eight pr ...

, a people of Northern Thailand **

Yuan language Kam Mueang ( nod, , กำเมือง) or Northern Thai language ( th, ภาษาไทยถิ่นเหนือ) is the language of the Northern Thai people of Lanna, Thailand. It is a Southwestern Tai language that is closely relat ...

, commonly known as Northern Thai language, language of the Thai Yuan people

Places

Yu'an District Yu'an District () is a district of the city of Lu'an, Anhui Province Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is ...

, in Anhui, China *

Yuan River The Yuan River, also known by its Chinese name as the Yuanjiang, is one of the four largest rivers in Hunan province in southeast-central China. It is a tributary of Yangtze River. It is long and rises in Guizhou province in the Miao Mountains n ...

(沅江 or 沅水), one of the four largest rivers in Hunan, a tributary of the Yangtze River

Other uses

Yuanfen ''Yuán'' () or ''Yuanfen'' (), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad chances and potential relationships. It can also be translated as "destiny, luck as conditioned by one's past", or "natural affinity am ...

(缘分), a Chinese or Buddhist concept that means the predetermined principle that dictates a person's relationships and encounters *

Type 041 submarine The Type 039A submarine ( NATO reporting name: Yuan class) is a class of diesel-electric submarine in China's People's Liberation Army Navy. It is China's first AIP powered submarine and presumed to be one of the quietest diesel-electric subm ...

, PLAN Yuan-class submarines *

Yuan Qi In traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese culture, ''yuán qì'' (元氣) is an innate or prenatal qi. This inborn qi is differentiated from acquired qi that a person may develop over their lifetime. Porkert describes the concept as "the metaph ...

(TCM), in traditional Chinese medicine * Yuan (''Tales of Symphonia'') (ユアン), a character from ''Tales of Symphonia'' *

BYD Yuan The BYD Yuan (比亚迪元) is a subcompact crossover SUV produced by Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD Auto, slotting below the BYD Song compact crossover. It is part of BYD's "Dynasty Series" of production vehicles, and is named after t ...

(元), a car * Tao Yúan (''Shaman King'') (Tao En), a character in ''Shaman King''