Yuan may refer to:
Currency Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan Renminbi, the currency system of modern mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan New Taiwan dollar, the currency used in modern Taiwan, whose basic unit is yuán in Mandarin Manchukuo yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo Gold yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Republic of China between 1948 and 1949 Yen and yuan sign (¥), symbol used for yuan currency in Latin scripts
Governmental organ "Government branch" or "Court" (), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution.
Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Control Yuan Examination Yuan Executive Yuan Judicial Yuan Legislative Yuan
Government of Imperial China Xuanzheng Yuan, or Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs during the Yuan dynasty Lifan Yuan during the Qing dynasty
Dynasties Yuan dynasty (元朝), a dynasty of China ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan Northern Yuan (北元), the Yuan dynasty's successor state in northern China and the Mongolian Plateau
People and languages Yuan (surname), the transliteration of a number of Chinese family names (e.g. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰, 遠) Yuan Haowen (元好問; 1190–1257), Chinese poet, author, and official Thai Yuan, a people of Northern Thailand Yuan language, commonly known as Northern Thai language, language of the Thai Yuan people
Places Yu'an District, in Anhui, China Yuan River (沅江 or 沅水), one of the four largest rivers in Hunan, a tributary of the Yangtze River Nanyang, Henan, abbreviated (宛) and pronounced as Yuān in Yayan, a city in China
Other uses Yuanfen (缘分), a Chinese or Buddhist concept that means the predetermined principle that dictates a person's relationships and encounters Type 041 submarine, PLAN Yuan-class submarines Yuan Qi (TCM), in traditional Chinese medicine Yuan (Tales of Symphonia) (ユアン), a character from Tales of Symphonia BYD Yuan (元), a subcompact crossover SUV BYD Yuan Plus, a battery electric compact crossover SUV Tao Yúan (Shaman King) (Tao En), a character in Shaman King
See also Yen, the currency of Japan Korean won (disambiguation), the currency of Korea 元 (disambiguation) 圓 (disambiguation)