jiaon.
/dʒaʊ/ A unit of currency and coin of China.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Chinese coins
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jiao1949
1949 Whitaker's Almanack 905/2 By Presidential Decree of August 19, 1948, the Chinese National Dollar currency..was replaced by a new currency named the Gold Yuan... The subsidiary coinage consists of fen (cents) and Chiao (tenths of a yuan).
1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 544 The coinage of Nationalist China in Formosa, issued since 1949 in various values of the chiao in aluminium and bronze.
1971 Whitaker's Almanack 980 China—Renminbi or Yuan of 10 Jiao or 100 Fen.
1973 Times 21 Mar. (China Trade Suppl.) p. iii/6 The subsidiary units are jiao (10 jiao = 1 yuan).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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