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In the IOU, Zhang wrote: "Zhang borrowed money RMB 14,000 yuan from Gao, and today 还欠款 (還欠款) 4000 yuan. (meaning paid back debt 4,000 yuan (when character "还" is pronounced "huán"), or still owe a debt of 4,000 yuan (when character "还" is pronounced "hái"))." The polyphonic character "还" here later led to a lawsuit.
Books containing both Chinese characters and pinyin are often used by foreign learners of Chinese. Pinyin's role in teaching pronunciation to foreigners and children is similar in some respects to furigana-based books with hiragana letters written alongside kanji (directly analogous to bopomofo) in Japanese, or fully vocalized texts in Arabic.
Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.
"Silver Dragon" yuan coin, 1904. 5-yuan note from a private bank, 1906. 5-yuan note of the Republic of China (1941) Taiwanese note for 10,000 yuan (1949) The yuan (/ j uː ˈ ɑː n,-æ n / yoo-A(H)N; sign: ¥; Chinese: 圓/元; pinyin: yuán; ⓘ) is the base unit of a number of former and present-day currencies throughout China.
However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent. Elements of the sound system include not only the segments—e.g. vowels and consonants—of the language, but also the tones applied to each syllable ...
Yuan (袁, Mandarin pronunciation: ⓘ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. [1] [2] In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu pinyin) or Yüen 2" ().
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language.
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