Yuan

Yuan may refer to:

Currency

 * Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan
 * Renminbi, the current currency used in mainland 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
 * Yen and yuan sign (¥), symbol used for yuan currency in Latin scripts

Governmental organ

 * "Government branch" or "Court", the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.

Government of 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. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰, 遠)
 * Yuan Haowen (元好問; 1190–1257), 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
 * Nanyang, Henan, abbreviated Wǎn (宛) and pronounced as Yuān in Yayan, a city in China

Other uses

 * Yuanfen (缘分), a Chinese or Buddhist concept that means the predetermined principle that dictates a person's relationships and encounters
 * Type 041 submarine, PLAN Yuan-class submarines
 * Yuan Qi (TCM), in traditional Chinese medicine
 * Yuan (Tales of Symphonia) (ユアン), a character from Tales of Symphonia
 * BYD Yuan (元), a car
 * Tao Yúan (Shaman King) (Tao En), a character in Shaman King