yuan

Other forms of yuan

plural

yuans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yuan

What does yuan mean?

yuan means "the basic unit of money in China". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yuan?

yuan has 2 syllables: y-uan. The stress falls on "uan". In IPA it is /juˈɑn/.

What is another word for yuan?

Close synonyms include kwai, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yuan a common word?

yuan is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with yuan?

9 words rhyme with yuan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.