What, related etymologically to the Chinese Yuan and the Japanese Yen, is the currency of North and South Korea?
Yuan (currency) code for renminbi is CNY, an abbreviation of "Chinese yuan". (A similar case is the use of the terms "sterling" to designate British currency and "pound" for the unit of account.) The symbol for the yuan (元) is also used in Chinese to refer to the currency units of Japan "(yen)" and Korea "(won)", and is used to translate the currency unit "dollar" as well as some other currencies; for example, the United States dollar is called "Meiyuan" () in Chinese, and the euro is called "Ouyuan" (). When used in English in the context of the modern foreign exchange
Yuan (currency) new currency, in banknote form only, denominated in yuan. This became the sole currency of mainland China at the end of the civil war. A new yuan was introduced in 1955 at a rate of 10,000 old yuan = 1 new yuan, known as the renminbi yuan. It is the currency of the People's Republic of China to this day. In 1946, a new currency was introduced for circulation in Taiwan, replacing the Japanese issued Taiwan yen. Known as the Old Taiwan dollar. It was not directly related to the mainland yuan. In 1949, a second yuan was introduced in