Chinese cash
Chinese cash has several meanings:
- Cash (Chinese coin) (方孔錢 fāng kǒng qián), a type of copper coin used in imperial China
- Cash (unit) (厘 lí), a Chinese unit of weight equivalent to 1⁄1000 tael, and a currency equivalent to that weight in silver
- Chinese cash (currency unit) (文 wén), a historical Chinese currency unit often used on cash coins
Note: The word "cash" used in these contexts was derived from the Tamil kāsu, a South Indian monetary unit.[1] The English word "cash," meaning "tangible currency," is an older word from Middle French caisse.[1]
See also
- Renminbi, the official currency of the People's Republic of China (PRC), whose principal unit is the Yuan
Notes
- 1 2 Douglas Harper (2001). "Online Etymology Dictionary". Retrieved 2007-04-11.
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