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renminbi

official currency of the People's Republic of China
Organization currency Q39099
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Summary

renminbi is a currency[1]. renminbi ranks in the top 0.67% of currency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,693 views/month, #4 of 601).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: People's Republic of China[3]
  • Instance of: yuan[4], money[5]
  • Named after: people[6]
  • Manufacturer: China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation[7]
  • Part of: special drawing rights[8]
  • Commons category: Money of the People's Republic of China[9]
  • Currency sign: ¥[10]
  • Central bank/issuer: People's Bank of China[11]
  • Start time: 1949[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Renminbi[13]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: People's Republic of China[14]
  • Replaces: Mengjiang yuan[15]
  • Short name: Yuan[16], CNY[17], RMB[18]
  • Price: 0.144029958 US dollars[19], 0.154373398 US dollars[20], 0.161170744 US dollars[21], 0.13036 euro[22], 0.14840716 US dollars[23]
  • Copyright holder: People's Bank of China[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]
  • Unit symbol: ¥[26]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[27]
  • Subdivision of this unit: jiao[28], Chinese fen[29]

Why It Matters

renminbi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] renminbi is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . federalreserve.gov. Retrieved . federalreserve.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · 小老虎3018 · 2026-08-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4cfOFG
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:1||1 */ Short name: CNY"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → special drawing rights
    Currency sign → ¥
    Central bank/issuer → People's Bank of China
    Manufacturer → —
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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