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

Governmental organ

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

Government of Taiwan

* Control Yuan * Examination Yuan * Executive Yuan * Judicial Yuan * Legislative Yuan

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 dynasty (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

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 * Yuán qì, Yuan Qi (TCM), in traditional Chinese medicine * Yuan (Tales of Symphonia), Yuan (''Tales of Symphonia'') (ユアン), a character from ''Tales of Symphonia'' * BYD Yuan (元), a car * Tao Yuan (Shaman King), Tao Yúan (''Shaman King'') (Tao En), a character in ''Shaman King''