金圆券

金圓券
jīnyuánquàn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 gold yuan note (currency issued by the Nationalist Government in 1948)

Examples

HSK 4
Yéye jiālǐ hái liú zhe jǐ zhāng jiù jīnyuánquàn.
Grandpa still keeps a few old gold yuan notes at home.
HSK 7-9
Jīnyuánquàn fāxíng hòu búdào yì nián jiù yánzhòng biǎnzhí.
Within less than a year of being issued, the gold yuan note suffered severe devaluation.

Tips

history
Issued by the Republic of China government in August 1948 to replace the collapsing fabi 法币, the gold yuan note itself hyperinflated within months - by mid-1949 it was effectively worthless. Often cited as a textbook case of currency failure.

Stroke Order

金 jīn
圆 yuán
券 quàn