China Dollar Bill Multi-Lingual

By Xah Lee. Date: .
Chinese 20 renminbi yuan 2016
Chinese 20 renminbi yuan 2016

amazing. Chinese dollar bill has multiple languages on it. Some kida obsolete.

Chinese 20 renminbi yuan 2016 detail

Top: “ZHONGGUO REMIN YINHANG” is Chinese characters in pinyin (in Chinese 中国人民銀行). Meaning: China People's Bank.

Top left: Manchu/Mongol script. 蒙古文字Mongolian writing systems

Top right: Tibetan script. 藏語Tibetic languages

Bottom left: 维吾尔语Uyghur language

Bottom right: 壮语Zhuang languages

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