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Also 元(yuán) is exactly 'Chinese Yuan' you hear about today.

• yorwba 6y ago
  ... except the name of the modern currency is derived from 圓 yuán, meaning "circle", and 元 is only used as a simplified version because they're homophones in Standard Mandarin. According to Zhengzhang Shangfang's reconstruction, their Middle Chinese pronunciations were /ŋʉɐn/ 元 and /ɦˠiuᴇn/ 圓 respectively.