Chinese Currency

How to count from ONE to TEN on one hand ? The Chinese can use five fingers on one hand to indicate the numbers from one to ten, this is very useful when you can not speak Chinese language or you are at a very noisy place, where body language may be more effective than shouting aloud ...

A Brief Introduction of RMB (Renminbi)

Chinese money is called Renminbi (RMB) means "The People's Currency". The popular unit of RMB is yuan" 1 yuan equals 10 jiao, 1 jiao equals 10 fen. There are parts of China where the yuan is also known as Kuai and Jiao is known as mao. Chinese currency is issued in the following denominations: one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred yuan; one, two and five jiao; and one, two and five fen. The official exchange rate between U.S. dollar and Renminbi yuan currently is about 1:6.8 (1 US dollar = 6.8 yuan RMB) For current exchange rate, please click Money Converter for detailed information ).

What RMB Looks Like?

100 yuan (new)

100 yuan

50 yuan (new)

50 yuan

20 yuan

10 yuan (new)

10 yuan

5 yuan (new)

5 yuan

2 yuan

1 yuan (new, issued in July 2004)

1 yuan

5 jiao (0.5 yuan)

2 jiao (0.2 yuan)

1 jiao (0.1 yuan)

From top to the bottom: 1 yuan, 5 jiao (0.5 yuan), 1 jiao (0.1 yuan)

From top to the bottom: 5 fen (0.05 yuan), 2 fen (0.02 yuan), 1 fen (0.01 yuan)