How to Use yuan in a Sentence

yuan

noun
  • The yuan is down 5% against the dollar since late April.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • In August, the yuan fell to a 16-year low against the dollar.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In the past three months, the yuan has lost about 7% of its value against the greenback.
    Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • The firm has been raising the yuan fund since last year, per the report.
    Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The formula tends to push the yuan towards the middle of the pack.
    The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The offshore yuan strengthened to the highest since June 2018.
    Sarah Ponczek, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The central bank’s move to set the Chinese yuan freer spooked the public further.
    Lingling Wei, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • These are all perks and symbols that China and the yuan do not have—and, perhaps, cannot get.
    The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Of that amount, 34 billion yuan ($4.7 billion) was still unpaid by the end of last year.
    Laura He, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In the last twelve months, the renminbi, also known as the yuan, has gained 12% versus the dollar.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • The Chinese yuan has strengthened this year, and the country’s central bank seems to be trying to slow the rise.
    Mike Bird, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The People’s Bank may be selling dollars to strengthen the yuan.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The offshore yuan strengthened past 7 to the U.S. dollar to trade at 6.95 against the dollar in midafternoon Hong Kong time.
    Joe Wallace, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The value of the UK pound, the euro, China’s yuan and Japan’s yen, among many others, has tumbled.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
  • China’s yuan is about to lose its anchor—at least for a little while.
    WSJ, 27 Sep. 2023
  • What’s more, the Chinese yuan just had one of its worst months on record against the U.S. dollar, plunging as much as 4.5% at its low.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • But the offshore yuan, which trades more freely overseas, fell again on Friday.
    Laura He, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The yuan was trading at about 6.35 to the dollar in offshore markets on Friday.
    Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The result has been to make the currency less volatile and to slow any selloff when the yuan was under pressure.
    Chong Koh Ping, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2020
  • And yet the yuan still lags as a major global currency.
    Tuugi Chuluun, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The yuan has declined for the past five months as of the end of July—its longest losing streak since October 2018.
    Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The yuan’s stability of the past few years has also been partly the result of good fortune.
    The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The yuan will likely weaken while haven demand may boost the greenback, Cheung said.
    Tian Chen, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • But weakness in the Chinese economy and yuan have hurt China’s sales over time.
    David Goldman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • China and Russia should be wary of the mutual delusion of backing only by the ruble and the yuan.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • On the forex market, the Chinese yuan also declined against the US dollar, hitting the lowest level in one and a half years.
    Laura He, CNN, 6 May 2022
  • The use of the yuan comes at a time when China’s footprint in the region is increasing with rising trade and investment.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • Betting was that Beijing might be forced to follow Bangkok, Jakarta and Seoul in devaluing the yuan.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Potential losers in the face of a rising dollar include the Mexican peso and Chinese yuan.
    Anya Andrianova, Fortune, 21 July 2024
  • Uniformed guards at checkpoints in Myanmar showed little interest in them as they were transported from the border — so long as drivers handed over one to two thousand Chinese yuan in cash.
    Washington Post, 22 July 2024

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