different between yuan vs redback

English

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (yuán), from ??? (yuán, “circle > round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Compare Japanese ?(??) (en), Korean ? (?, won). Doublet of yen and won.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /j????n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ju??n/, /?ju?n/

Noun

yuan (plural yuan or yuans)

1. The basic unit of money in China.

Synonyms

• kuai, kwai (informal)

Translations

See also

• renminbi
• CNY
• RMB

Anagrams

• Aynu, anyu

French

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (yuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?an/, /?an/

Noun

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (Chinese currency)

Further reading

• “yuan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mandarin

Romanization

yuan

1. nonstandard spelling of yu?n
2. nonstandard spelling of yuán
3. nonstandard spelling of yu?n
4. nonstandard spelling of yuàn

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

yuan m (definite singular yuanen, indefinite plural yuanar, definite plural yuanane)

1. (numismatics) currency used in China (since 1971)

References

• “yuan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iuane

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (yuán).

Noun

yuan m (plural yuans)

1. yuan (currency unit of China)

Spanish

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (yuán).

Pronunciation

Noun

yuan m (plural yuanes)

1. yuan

English

Alternative forms

• red-back, red back

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

red +? back

Noun

redback (plural redbacks)

1. (Australia) A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
   • 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78,

     “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.

   • 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58,

     Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.

   • 2007, Steve Backshall, Steve Backshall's Venom: Poisonous Animals in the Natural World, page 114,

     Easily identified by a red, orange or brownish stripe on the abdomen, Redbacks are responsible for by far the most spider bites in Australia.

   • 2012, Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Naturalist, page 55,

     The only truly dangerous Australian spiders are funnelwebs and redbacks but, these days, deaths of people from these spiders seem to be a thing of the past since antivenom is now available.

2. (US) A brown and white sandpiper, Calidris alpina, native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.

Synonyms

• (Latrodectus hasselti): redback spider
• (Calidris alpina):

See also

• black widow
• katipo

Translations

Etymology 2

Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red

Noun

redback (plural redbacks)

1. (slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)

Coordinate terms

• red chip