Thread: How do you pronounc "Yuan." Chinese money?

Originally Posted by Jarvis

He's a brit

not a tit?

are you sure?

Originally Posted by teddy

not a tit? are you sure?

No, thats Knobertson

Originally Posted by Jarvis

The Vietnamese have bigger tits

...if you appreciate larger knockers.

Originally Posted by teddy

Originally Posted by Jarvis

The Vietnamese have bigger tits

but the biggest one is known as dr candy

are you talking about your fat arse again, or talking out of it?

Looks like Jarvis just got jailed

In Shanghai I found most people said 'kwai', if I had been in Thailand and heard that word as often I would have started to get a little worried.

Originally Posted by Milkman

why do I hear Renminbi and also Yuan as the name for the money.

It is like saying Sterling and Pounds in the UK.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I think there are 2 "official" currencies in that country, the foreigner notes, and the local notes

Not!

Originally Posted by wefearourdespot

wtf ! This is utter nonsense. Yuan is the chinese word for money. Renminbi is the name of their currency.

What a fucking idiot you show yourself to be, yet again.

[edit] Renminbi yuan, 1955-

Main article: Renminbi
A new yuan was introduced in 1955 at a rate of 10,000 old yuan = 1 new yuan. It is known as the renminbi yuan.

whilst WeAreAnArsehole may have been correct many years ago

Yuan in Chinese literally means a "round object" or "round coin". During the Qing Dynasty, the yuan was a round and silver coin.

, as the top quote shows, the Yuan, which was the official currency became the new Yuan, or Renminbi Yuan

The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous to that between pound and sterling.

Thank you for the continued comments.

A special thanks to "wefearourdespot."

Originally Posted by DrAndy

WeAreAnArsehole may have been correct many years ago

Yes but words can evolve and change, the meanings can become something other, just as once upon a time had someone been called 'awful' it would have been a compliment, this meant ‘full of awe’ i.e. something wonderful, delightful, amazing. However, over time it has evolved to mean exactly the opposite. Just as 'nice' comes from the Latin ‘not to know’. Originally a ‘nice person’ was someone who was ignorant or unaware.

So maybe WeBeAnArsehole is not so awful after all, and in fact an extremely nice person.

he is more than nice

Originally Posted by English Noodles

In Shanghai I found most people said 'kwai', if I had been in Thailand and heard that word as often I would have started to get a little worried.

But people in Shanghai speak Shanghainese, not mandarin.

Remninbi is (correct me if I am wrong) from the Mandarin "REMNIN" Which means "of the people" so it is sort of "The Peoples currency" like Remnin guang chang" The Peoples park or place,

But yes, "Kwai" is used in Shanghai, but try using that in Beijing or Hong Kong...it's like trying to teach someone to speak english using French or Welsh....when I worked in Shanghai, most of the taxis couldn't speak MANDARIN!

You could speak perfect phrases of Mandarin, and they would just look at you like Manuel from Fawlty Towers...."Que?"

The Holiday Inn was even more fun...Pudong Dja Rue Dja Dee-a, fuck I should have been a linguist. wasted I am....every night to be honest!

eg, the hotel "Shangrila" was totally unknown unless you pronounced it using 4 sylables "SHANG GA REE LA"

They couldn't pronounce CARREFOURE, so you had to use "JA LER FOO"

Originally Posted by Missismiggins

when I worked in Shanghai, most of the taxis couldn't speak MANDARIN!

That would be an amazing trick, a taxi able to speak any language.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Originally Posted by Milkman

Thank you for the continued comments.

An interesting thread, one in which the OP asks, ?"how do you pronounce..." on a test based forum. Thus opening the debate on how the transliterations are pronounced.

HOW THE FUCK IS ANYONE GOING TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION? I mean really, the collection of letters you will see here as "pronunciations" are merely a re-arranged set of phonetic rules up to your interpretation are they not?

I really liked this one:

Originally Posted by Dug

Yoo arn (without the R sound)

Then Why put the fucking "r" in there?!?

So where are you left? Further out than you were before? Surely not any closer?

Milky is almost always polite he thanks the posters he keep the dialog going. But, You gotta admit, he is a lunatic.

Well if you haven't got anything to say on the subject then just don't say anything.
The 'R' by the way was to indicate the long A sound as in aren't as opposed to the short A as in ant.

^ sounds like you have a bit of a dongbei accent there Dug

Originally Posted by Blake7

^ sounds like you have a bit of a dongbei accent there Dug

No I don't pronounce the 'R'.

^ Are you British?

The "r" in the middle or end of the word has the hanging "aw" sound.

Originally Posted by Jarvis

uwan pronounced fast

That's how I knew it, sounded more like wan. But I only studied there for summer session and Heilongjang is far away from the capital. Shanghai dialect is diff. Forget about understanding Guangzhou-speak if you speak Putonghua.

Originally Posted by Dug

Well if you haven't got anything to say on the subject then just don't say anything.

pretty sure i was on the subject. Foolis thing to do really ask "how to pronounce.." on a fucking text based forum. So the subject cold be; " how to pronounce.." Or, "how stupid is it to ask the pronunciation of..." What the fuck do you know?

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by teddy

In Cambodia those Vietnamese whores are called yuan by the khmers

Is this stupid post deleted yet?

That's what happens when people are too lazy to start threads in the right forum.

As a matter of interest milkman, why do you want to know?

Originally Posted by Dug

why do you want to know?

Maybe he's just trying to kill the cat.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by wefearourdespot

wtf ! This is utter nonsense. Yuan is the chinese word for money. Renminbi is the name of their currency.

What a fucking idiot you show yourself to be, yet again.

I heard that from an expat who had worked in China a few years ago. Wiki gives a slightly different story, but what counts is that there are not two different currencies in China like Butterfly suggested (my reply was aimed at correcting that). China isn't like Cuba.