Yuan
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Yuan may refer to:
Currency
Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan
Renminbi, the currency system of modern mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan
New Taiwan dollar, the currency used in modern Taiwan, whose basic unit is yuán in Mandarin
Manchukuo yuan, 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 (¥), symbol used for yuan currency in Latin scripts
Governmental organ
"Government branch" or "Court" (Chinese: 院; pinyin: Yuàn), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.
Government of the Republic of China (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 (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.
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