yuan
yuan — 名詞
- yuansingular
- yuansplural
1. the standard currency denomination in China, equal to 100 fen and used for all e
元；人民幣
中國的標準貨幣單位
the standard currency denomination in China, equal to 100 fen and used for all everyday transactions. In formal financial contexts the currency system is called renminbi (RMB), but yuan is the everyday name for the basic unit.
Quan paid 150 yuan for a new winter coat at the market in Shanghai.
Quan 在上海的市場花 150 元買了一件新冬衣。
collocation: pay + [amount] + yuan + for [item]
The price of the meal was only 35 yuan, including soup and tea.
那頓飯的價格只有 35 元，包含湯和茶。
collocation: be + [amount] + yuan (price expression)
Christopher exchanged his dollars for yuan at the bank before his trip to Beijing.
Christopher 在去北京之前，到銀行把美金換成了人民幣。
collocation: exchange [currency] + for yuan
The street vendor charged Saira only 10 yuan for a bowl of hot noodles.
路邊攤販只跟 Saira 收 10 元，就賣給她一碗熱騰騰的麵。
Since the new trade agreement, the yuan has strengthened against the US dollar.
自從新的貿易協定簽訂後，人民幣對美元匯率走強。
grammar: yuan + strengthen / weaken against [currency]
- pay yuan for
- cost yuan
- exchange dollars for yuan
- yuan strengthens against
- yuan weakens against
- yuan drops
- yuan rises
- renminbi
the official name of the Chinese currency system; used in formal or financial contexts, while yuan is the everyday unit
- RMB
abbreviation of renminbi; common in banking, exchange rates, and international trade
- kuai
informal spoken Chinese term for yuan, similar to saying 'buck' for dollar; not used in English writing
文法句型
[number] + yuan
pay / cost + [amount] + yuan + for + [item]
用法筆記
Yuan is both singular and plural — you say '10 yuan', not '10 yuans'. In mainland China, prices are usually given in yuan, though the official name of the currency system is renminbi (RMB). The symbol for yuan is ¥.
常見錯誤
yuan — 慣用語
Yuan River
idioma river in southeast central China, about 805 kilometres (500 miles) long, flowing from Guizhou province northeastwards into Hunan province
沅江 — 中國東南中部河流，發源於貴州，向東北流經湖南。
The Yuan River flows through deep gorges in Guizhou before reaching the plains of Hunan.
Local farmers use water from the Yuan River to irrigate their rice fields during the dry season.
a cross-reference in some dictionaries directing the reader to sense 4 of the word 'red', which covers uses related to communism or revolutionary socialism — indicating the term appears in that historical or political context
此為詞典交互參照，指示讀者查閱 red 第四義項（共產主義相關用法）。
Merriam-Webster lists 'yuan' with the instruction 'see red sense 4', suggesting the word appears in a communist-era compound.
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- yuan coin
- yuan note
- yuan bill
- yuan banknote
- yuan symbol
- yuan value
常用片語
- Chinese yuan
- yuan against the dollar
- yuan strengthens
- yuan weakens
- yuan appreciated
- yuan depreciated
- yuan rose
- yuan fell
- yuan-dollar exchange rate