Yuan may refer to:

Currency

Yuan (currency) The yuan ( ; currency sign, sign: ¥; ; ) is the base unit of a number of former and present-day currency, currencies throughout Greater China, China. A ''yuan'' () is also known colloquially as a ''kuai'' (; originally a lump of silver). O ...

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

Renminbi The renminbi ( ; currency symbol, symbol: Yen and yuan sign, ¥; ISO 4217, ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as the Chinese yuan, is the official currency of the China, People's Republic of China. The renminbi is issued by the Peop ...

, the currency of modern mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan **

New Taiwan dollar The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT), or simply the Taiwan dollar, is the official currency of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Usually, the $ sign precedes the amount, but NT$ is used to distinguish from othe ...

, the currency used in modern 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 Manchukuo, 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 ...

, the unit of currency that was used in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo ** Gold yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Republic of China between 1948 and 1949 *

Yen and yuan sign The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Renminbi, Chinese yuan currency, currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles a capital letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The ...

(¥), 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

Control Yuan The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China, both during its time in mainland China and Taiwan. Designed as a hybrid of auditor and ombudsman by Taiwanese law, the Control Yuan holds th ...

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 o ...

Executive Yuan The Executive Yuan () is the executive (government), executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Under the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China, amended constitution, the head of the Execut ...

Judicial Yuan The Judicial Yuan () is the Judiciary, judicial branch of the Republic of China.''See'' Constitution arts. 77-82, ''available at'' ''See'' Additional Articles of the Constitution art. 5, ''available at'' It functions as the Constitutional Cour ...

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 four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a ...

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 origina ...

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 ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...

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

Northern Yuan The Northern Yuan was a dynastic state 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 people, Jurchen-led ...

(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, in what is now Shanxi province, noted for his poems in the '' ci'' and the '' sanqu'' forms and for including poems in the ...

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

Thai Yuan The Northern Thai people or Tai Yuan (, ), self-designation ''khon mu(e)ang'' ( meaning "people of the (cultivated) land" or "people of our community"), are a Tai ethnic group, native to nine provinces in Northern Thailand, principally in t ...

, a people of Northern Thailand ** Yuan language, 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, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. It has a population of 930,000 and an area of . The government of Yu'an District is located in Yunlu Street. Administrative divisions In the ...

, 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 Mountain ...

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

Nanyang, Henan Nanyang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Henan province, China. The city with the largest administrative area in Henan, Nanyang borders Xinyang to the southeast, Zhumadian to the east, Pingdingshan to the northeast, Luoyang to the n ...

, abbreviated (宛) and pronounced as Yuān in

Yayan ''Yayan'' is a theorized ancient form of the Chinese language used as a standard dialect by intellectuals during the Zhou dynasty (256 BC). History ''Yayan'' was mentioned in the ''Analects'', which says: While the phrase has been a ...

, a city in China

Other uses

Yuanfen ''Yuán'' ( zh, t=緣, zh, s=缘, first=t, poj=iân, p=yuán, j=jyun4) or ''Yuanfen'' ( zh, t=緣分, zh, s=缘分, first=t, poj=iân-hūn, p=yuánfèn, j=jyun4fan6), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad ...

(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 041 (NATO reporting name: Zhou class) is a class of attack submarines under development by China for the People's Liberation Army Navy Submarine Force (PLANSF). The class is expected to succeed the Type 039A/B/C (Yuan class) and would ...

, PLAN Yuan-class submarines *

Yuan Qi In traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese culture, ''yuán qì'' (元氣) or vital qi, innate or prenatal qi. Inborn qi (Jing 精) is differentiated from acquired qi that a person may develop or replenished over their lifetime. Further more trad ...

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

BYD Yuan The BYD Yuan () 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 the Yuan dy ...

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