Chinese Currency

Note: In Chinese “Renminbi” (RMB) means “People’s Currency”

Exchange Rate as of 5-2-2017 posted at www.xe.com

U.S. Dollar:

$1 USD = ABOUT 6.89 yuan RMB
$100 US dollars = ABOUT 689 yuan RMB

1 yuan = ABOUT 14 US cents

100 yuan (old)

100 yuan (new)

50 yuan (old)

50 yuan (new)

20 yuan (old)

10 yuan (old)

10 yuan (new)

5 yuan (old)

5 yuan (new)

2 yuan

1 yuan

0.5 yuan (5 jiao)

0.2 yuan (2 jiao)

0.1 yuan (1 jiao)

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)

Note:

1 yuan = 10 jiao; 1 jiao = 10 fen.
A yuan is often called a kuai (that’s like saying a dollar is a buck) and a jiao is often called a mao (no reason that I know of!)

* special thanks to Judy Gautier, an “old China hand” who prepared this for one of her teams a few years back.