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Yuan

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌjuːˈæn//
  • United Kingdom//ˈwæn//
  • United States//juˈɑn//
  • United States//ˈwɑn//
  • United States//ˈjuən//

The Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368.

    [...]the Founder of that Family, who took the Name of Yuen, and who is known in Europe by the Name of Zing hi, or Zing his kan, but whom the Chineſe Hiſtory calls Tchin bi ſe, and Tai tſou, after he had conquer’d the King had thoughts of carrying the War into Corea: His General, called Leou co immediately made himſelf Mafter of the Towns ſituated upon the Eaſt of the River Ya lou;[...]

  2. 2

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From Mandarin 元 (Yuán).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From Mandarin 袁 (Yuán). Doublet of Yuen.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).