Renminbi is the symbol of China currency-Renminbi. It is also a symbol of Japanese currency.
Renminbi (RMB)
RMB is the symbol of RMB.
Article 15 of Chapter III of the Law of the People's Bank of China stipulates: "The legal tender of People's Republic of China (PRC) is RMB". 1 948 65438+February1When the People's Bank of China was established, it began to issue the first set of RMB; March 1955, March 1 issue the second set of RMB; 1962 April 15, the third set of RMB was issued; The fourth set of RMB was issued on April 27th,1987; 1999 10 The fifth set of RMB was issued on June 1 day. 20 14 RMB circulating in the market is the fifth set.
The unit of RMB is Yuan (Yuan) (Ren Min currency is Yuan Renminbi, referred to as "RMB" for short, with "RMB" as the code name). The unit of RMB tokens is cents. RMB has no legal gold content, and it performs functions such as value scale, circulation means and payment means.
The origin of RMB
"Yuan" is not only the writing symbol of RMB, but also represents the monetary system of RMB and the unit "Yuan" of RMB. When filling in the amount with Arabic numerals in economic exchanges and accounting, adding a "RMB" symbol before the first place of the amount can not only prevent adding numbers before the amount, but also indicate the amount of RMB. Since "RMB" itself represents the unit of RMB, if the symbol "RMB" is added before the amount, there is no need to add the word "Yuan" after the amount.
So, how did the abbreviation "RMB" come into being? It dates back to the Republic of China.
1935, the Kuomintang government reformed the monetary system and determined the currency in circulation by force in the form of legal system, that is, "legal tender". At first, legal tender only kept a certain parity with the British pound. Later, with the increasing role of the US dollar in the international market, legal tender was linked to the US dollar. Therefore, the legal tender symbol is written as "$" by borrowing the dollar symbol.
1 948 65438+February1The People's Bank of China was established and issued the first set of RMB in New China. However, in the early days of liberation, people used to use "$" as a symbol of the seal.
It was not until 1 March 19551China People's Bank issued the second set of RMB that the symbol of RMB was officially determined.
Because the unit of RMB is Yuan and the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Yuan is Yuan, the symbol of RMB adopts the first letter Y of Yuan's Chinese phonetic alphabet. In order to distinguish "Y" from Arabic numerals, two horizontal lines are added to the word "Y" to write "RMB", and the pronunciation is still "Yuan". From then on, people began to use the symbol "RMB" to represent RMB, and used it as the symbol of the head when writing digital amount, such as RMB 100 to write "RMB 100" or "RMB 100".
symbolic interpretation
One or two, Japanese yen or RMB?
In some fonts (such as Song Ti, regular script, bold, etc. ), the half angle of this symbol is "RMB" (two bars) and the whole angle is "RMB" (one bar); In other fonts (such as Microsoft Yahei), all corners and half corners are "RMB" (two bars); There are also some English fonts (such as Arial and CourierNew) that do not have full-width "RMB".
The currency symbol of China and Japan is "RMB" (with two stripes). On March 1955, the People's Bank of China issued the second set of RMB, and the RMB logo was officially confirmed. From then on, people began to use the symbol "RMB" to represent RMB, and used it as the symbol of the head when writing digital amount, such as RMB 100 to write "RMB 100" or "RMB 100". As we all know, the pronunciation of RMB is yuan, starting with the letter Y, and the two horizontal lines in the middle constitute the symbol of RMB. Yen is pronounced Yen and starts with Y. There are many arguments about why two stripes should be added in the middle of Y to form Yen logo. Generally speaking, it is modeled after the two vertical lines of the US dollar, but some Japanese patriots think that the Japanese pronunciation of "にほん" is written as "two books", which means "two" in Japanese, so two horizontal lines are added to the letter Y to form the Japanese currency symbol. As for how to distinguish these two monetary units, the general practice is to add the word RMB before the currency symbol RMB or JPY before the yen to show the difference. But generally in Japan, of course, our currency symbol is rarely marked, so what we usually see is the yen symbol, except in some shops in China. In addition, the yen symbol "Yuan" on the horizontal line is probably a folk usage or an informal usage. This profound problem is still left to the experts of currency symbols to study.