Chinese Yuan

The yuan (everyday use: 元; traditional Chinese: 圓; basic Chinese: 圆; pinyin: yuán; Wade-Giles: yuen; accurately “round”) is, in the Chinese phonological, the base unit of a coinage. For specimen, the US dollar is Meiyuan (美元). However, in an global context, yuan concern to the base unit of Chinese commonness, including the renminbi (CNY) and the New Taiwan dollar (TWD).

One yuan is divided into 10 jiao (角) or “fuzz” (mao) (毛). One jiao is rift into 10 fen (分). In Cantonese, far and wide spoken in Hong Kong and Macau, jiao and fen are called ho (毫) and sin (仙). “Sin” is a word lent into Cantonese from the English “cent”.

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