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Yüan

Yüan is the alternative form of Yuan.

Meaning of Yuan

Proper noun (1)

Yuan

  1. The Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368.
    • [...]the Founder of that Family, who took the Name of Yuen, and who is known in Europe by the Name of Zing hi, or Zing his kan, but whom the Chineſe Hiſtory calls Tchin bi ſe, and Tai tſou, after he had conquer’d the King had thoughts of carrying the War into Corea: His General, called Leou co...[1739 [1735], P. Du Halde, “Geographical Obſervations on the Kingdom of Corea”, in The General History Of China, 2nd edition, volume IV, →OCLC, page 391
  2. A surname from Chinese.

Proper noun (2)

Yuan

  1. A surname from Chinese.

See all 5 meanings of yuan

Origin of Yüan

From Mandarin 元 (Yuán), Wade–Giles romanization: Yüan².

Questions about Yüan

What is Yüan the alternative form of?
Yüan is the alternative form of Yuan.

Words near Yüan in the dictionary

  1. Yü Shan
  2. Yü-li
  3. Yü-lin
  4. Yü-t'ien
  5. Yü-tien
  6. Yüan
  7. Yüeh
  8. yüeh-ch'in
  9. yüeh-ch'ins
  10. Yüeh-p'u-hu
  11. Yün-ch'eng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yüan (page history and authors); Yuan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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