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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yuan
noun
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▪ In June compulsory purchase bonds worth 12,000 million yuan were issued.
▪ Support for loss-making state enterprises had also been a drain on the budget, with over 50,000 million yuan spent on subsidies.
▪ The 9.57 percent devaluation lowered the value of the yuan from US$1.00 to US$1.00 yuan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yuan

Chinese unit of currency introduced 1914, from Chinese yuan "round, round object, circle."

Wiktionary
yuan

n. The basic unit of money in China.

WordNet
yuan
  1. n. the basic unit of money in China [syn: kwai]

  2. the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]

Wikipedia
Yuan (surname)

Yuan (袁, ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán ( hanyu pinyin) or Yüen" ( Wade-Giles). Other romanizations include Yeu ( Shanghainese), Ion ( Chang-Du Gan), Yuen ( Cantonese), Oan ( Hokkien/ Min Nan), Wang ( Teochew), Won ( Korean), and Viên ( Vietnamese). Pronunciation differs widely from region to region.

According to tradition, the surname originated from a noble family of the ancient state of Chen, in what is now eastern Henan province. The written form of the character took its current standardised form around the 1st century. During the Han Dynasty, it was associated with the powerful Yuan clan of Ru'nan and later during Jin and Southern Dynasties, with the Yuan clan of Chen.

Historically, the name has been fast growing amongst Han Chinese, and has also been taken up by various non-Chinese ethnic groups. The surname is now held by more than 6.5 million people worldwide, and makes up 0.54% of the population of mainland China. Although growth has tapered off in the past six centuries, the Yuan name is still relatively widespread throughout China, as well as among overseas Chinese, with heaviest per capita concentrations in the Yangtze Delta region of central coastal China.

Because the Yangtze Delta region has historically exhibited high clan consciousness, there exist a large number of Yuan genealogies, most of which are now held in public institutions. Renewed interest in ancestry outside mainland China has been encouraged by the PRC government.

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Usage examples of "yuan".

Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.

Unknown to Wing Goy, The Shadow, strange being of the night, had stepped from darkness into the gloom of the Tai Yuan Shop!

Army of Hai Yuan the eastern, cutting off any avenue of enemy retreat.

Just outside arrow range, under the guidance of the engineers, the Army of Hai Yuan was encircling the city with a trench that would eventually become a defensive fortification.

Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.

Yuan recaptured Hankow at the end of October with accompanying massacre of all who had cut off their queues or otherwise come out in support of the rebellion.

Right behind them had been a pair of homicidal treasury agents from the city of Litz called Lenk and Lu Yuan.

And she had never met a more self-destructive person than Yuan Sirat Tiernan ambrov Rior.

It was during the Yuan dynasty that white translucent porcelain with the blue underglaze was first used.

Li Yuan went among them fearlessly, a piece of plain white chalk in his hand, meeting the eyes of each of them in turn, chalking the men and morphs, ignoring most of the boys.

Says Gao Yuan, they uncovered "hooligans and bad eggs, filthy rich peasants and son-of-a-bitch landlords, bloodsucking capitalists and neobourgeoisie, historical counterrevolutionaries and active counterrevolutionaries, rightists and ultrarightists, alien class elements and degenerate elements, reactionaries and opportunists, counterrevolutionary revisionists, imperialist running dogs, and spies.

Surprised, Li Yuan almost asked him what the matter was, but that would have been a mistake - a clear breach of etiquette.

Of all the cold fishes in the sea of life, imagine Li Yuan, rutting with his maids!

Supporters of the Regent, the tiny Puyi's father, contested bitterly with those of the court's most powerful general, Yuan Shikai.

The entrance fee was the equivalent of fifty cents in Chinese yuan.