plural yuan
1
the basic monetary unit of the People's Republic of China see Money Table compare renminbi
2
: the dollar of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
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China has 1,094 individuals with wealth exceeding 5 billion yuan ($700 million), down by 12% or 147 individuals from the previous year, according to Hurun Research.
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Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
Then in 2023, Luckin reported annual revenue of 24.9 billion yuan ($3.48 billion), surpassing Starbucks’s China revenue of around $3.16 billion.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 29 Oct. 2024
In the first half of this year, the company’s net loss nearly doubled year-on-year to 5.4 billion yuan ($758 million), partly due to rising R&D costs.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
Then in 2023, Luckin reported annual revenue of 24.9 billion yuan ($3.48 billion), surpassing Starbucks’s China revenue of around $3.16 billion.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 29 Oct. 2024
In the first half of this year, the company’s net loss nearly doubled year-on-year to 5.4 billion yuan ($758 million), partly due to rising R&D costs.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Yuan
geographical name
Yu·an
ˈywen 
ˈywän
1
river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeast central China flowing from Guizhou northeast to northeastern Hunan
2
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