Yuan

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Yuan may refer to:

Currency

• Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary China and Taiwan
  • Renminbi, the current currency used in 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

• "Court", the name for a kind of institution.

In the government of the Republic of China:

• Control Yuan
• Examination Yuan
• Executive Yuan
• Judicial Yuan
• Legislative Yuan

Others:

• Xuanzheng Yuan, or Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs during the Yuan dynasty
• Lifan Yuan during the Qing dynasty

Dynasties

• Yuan dynasty (元朝), also called the Mongol Dynasty, of China
  • Northern Yuan dynasty, the Yuan dynasty's successor state in Mongolia

People and languages

• Yuan (surname), the transliteration of a number of Chinese family names (e.g. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰)
  • Yuan Haowen (元好問), 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

Buddhism

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

Submarines

• Type 041 submarine, PLAN Yuan-class submarines

Traditional Chinese medicine

• Yuan Qi (TCM) Traditional Chinese medicine. TCM Qi: Traditional Chinese Medicine four Qi, Yuan qi, Wei qi, Ying qi, Zong qi

In fictional use

• Yuan (Tales of Symphonia) (ユアン), a character from Tales of Symphonia
• Tao Yúan (Shaman King) (Tao En), a character in Shaman King

See also

• Yen, the currency of Japan
• Korean won, the currency of Korea