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Plural of yuan

irregular plural

The plural of yuan is yuan or yuans.

Forms of yuan

Singularyuan /ˌjuːˈæn/
Pluralyuan /ˌjuːˈæn/
yuans
Countablecountable

Yuans in a sentence

  • She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month.1960, Suzanne Labin, “The Schoolmistress Shuen, the Midwife Yu, the Feminist Mee and a Group of Chinese Women”, in Edward Fitzgerald…. From the entry yuans

Meaning of yuan

  1. noun The basic unit of money in China.
  2. noun One of the five branches of the government of the Republic of China.

Full definition of yuan

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of yuan

What is the plural of yuan?
The plural of yuan is yuan or yuans.
Is yuan countable?
Yuan is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yuan (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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