Yuan to CFA franc: a rate that moves on one side only
The CFA franc is pegged to the euro. So the moving half of this rate is not your money.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
100, 1,000 and 10,000 yuan to CFA francs at this rate
- ¥100
- ≈ F CFA 8,410
- ¥1,000
- ≈ F CFA 84,102
- ¥10,000
- ≈ F CFA 841,022
- F CFA 1,000
- ≈ ¥11.89
- F CFA 10,000
- ≈ ¥118.90
- F CFA 100,000
- ≈ ¥1,189.03
Price a CNY invoice
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ F CFA 841,022
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
A rate is made of two currencies, and here one of them does not move: the CFA franc's parity with the euro is fixed. What you watch changing from day to day is the yuan against the euro, and nothing else. The figure is for sizing an order; the invoice itself is settled in CNY and funded with USDT or USDC from your Unigox Wallet.
- Timestamped CNY reference
- Funded with USDT or USDC
- The supplier is paid in CNY
The franc sizes the decision. It does not fund it.
Read the reference to judge whether the order is worth placing, then enter the exact CNY total from the invoice and check the USDT or USDC amount before committing anything.
- You read
- CNY → XOF · XAF
- You fund with
- XOF · USDT · USDC
- The supplier
- is paid in CNY
XOF
Bank transfer in the CFA franc zone, then USDT
USDT
Native Unigox Wallet
USDC
Native Unigox Wallet
Recipient gets
ChinaCNY
The exact yuan stated on the invoice, paid to the recipient in China.
How much is one yuan in CFA francs?
The figure at the top of this page converts one Chinese yuan — code CNY, the unit of the currency called renminbi — into CFA francs, with the time it was read. It is identical in XOF and XAF, because both francs share the same fixed parity with the euro. It is there to tell you whether a quotation fits your margin. It does not fund the payment: from the franc zone an invoice is settled in CNY and funded with USDT or USDC.
An indicative timestamped reference, never a quotation. The amount that commits anything is issued inside the flow, against a specific invoice and beneficiary, and it states both sides: what you fund and the exact CNY your supplier receives.
From recipient details to a tracked CNY payment
- 01
Add the recipient
Choose the supported China destination and enter the recipient details exactly as provided.
- 02
Enter the CNY invoice
Add the amount, purpose, relationship and optional invoice reference before pricing.
- 03
Choose how to fund
Select USDT or USDC from your native Unigox Wallet.
- 04
Review and follow the payment
Confirm the exact source and destination amounts, then follow the status from the same flow.
Pay from where your money already is
Unigox Wallet
Choose USDT or USDC
- Choose USDT or USDC
- Review the required wallet amount
- The recipient still receives CNY
Stablecoin rates and top-ups
A fixed parity on one side, a market on the other
The CFA franc is pegged to the euro at a fixed parity: 655.957 francs to one euro, in the UEMOA zone and in the CEMAC zone alike. That parity is not traded on a market, it is maintained. The direct and rarely stated consequence: your yuan-to-CFA-franc rate is not an observed price, it is the price of the yuan in euro multiplied by a constant.
That changes how to follow it. To know whether the yuan is getting more expensive for you, watch the yuan against the euro — that is where the entire movement happens. No local event, no decision by your commercial bank and no regional liquidity squeeze shifts this figure, because the franc side is locked.
It also says what the figure cannot do. A fixed parity does not freeze the cost of your order: the yuan moves, the euro moves, and an invoice negotiated in January does not cost the same in March. The reference tells you whether to keep negotiating, not what a cost will settle at.
- Fixed parity: 655.957 XOF and 655.957 XAF to one euro.
- What makes the displayed rate vary: the yuan against the euro, and nothing on the franc side.
- A timestamped reference sizes an order; it commits nobody.
Two CFA francs, one figure, fourteen countries
The CFA franc is not one currency but two. The West African CFA franc (XOF), issued by the BCEAO, circulates in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. The Central African CFA franc (XAF), issued by the BEAC, circulates in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
They really are distinct currencies: a BCEAO note does not spend in Douala and a BEAC note does not spend in Dakar. But because they share the same parity with the euro, one yuan is worth the same number of francs on both sides. The difference matters when you cross between the zones; it does not matter when you are pricing a Chinese invoice.
Which is why this is one page for all fourteen states rather than fourteen near-identical ones. The arithmetic is the same in Dakar, Abidjan, Cotonou and Douala, and so is the route: the franc buys the stablecoin, and the stablecoin settles the CNY invoice.
- XOF, BCEAO: eight West African states.
- XAF, BEAC: six Central African states.
- Same parity, so the same yuan figure — but not the same notes in the till.
What the conversion will not tell you
The CFA franc does not settle the invoice, but it does buy what settles it. The collection leg of this journey is fixed to a single currency in the backend and it is not the franc, so the payment leaves from USDT or USDC held in your Unigox Wallet. Those stablecoins are bought with francs on Unigox, at a price displayed before the purchase: two operations, both of them ours, and deliberately not added into one franc figure.
The beneficiary is framed just as tightly. The payment arrives in the bank account of a company on the Chinese mainland, over CNAPS, the Chinese domestic clearing system. A supplier's personal account is refused server-side, an account in Hong Kong likewise, and neither refusal is worked around by filling the form differently.
The amount has a shape too: the corridor runs inside a band from roughly 55 CNY up to about 65,000 CNY per payment, read from available liquidity rather than fixed by us. And a note we prefer to give in advance: the business payout mode is recent and not yet a well-trodden path, so a first order placed through it should be one you could afford to have delayed.
- The franc does not settle the invoice; it buys the USDT or USDC that does.
- Beneficiary: a company with a bank account on the Chinese mainland.
- The per-payment band is read from live liquidity and displayed when you price.
Built for the way the CFA franc zone pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for the CFA franc zone, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
The questions that follow the conversion
01What is 1 yuan in CFA francs today?
It is the figure at the top of the page, timestamped to Dakar time. For 100, 1,000 or 10,000 yuan, multiply that reference. It is the same in the West African and the Central African CFA franc.
02“Chinese money in FCFA” — which currency is that?
The renminbi. That is the name of the Chinese currency, RMB its common abbreviation, CNY its international code and yuan its unit. An invoice may carry ¥, RMB or CNY for one and the same amount.
03Is the rate different in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon?
No. XOF and XAF are distinct currencies pegged to the euro at the same parity, so the number of francs per yuan is identical across all fourteen states. What differs is the money in your till, not the calculation.
04Can I fund the payment in CFA francs from my bank?
Not today. The collection leg of this journey is fixed to a currency that is not the CFA franc, so no XOF or XAF transfer is offered and we do not imply one. The route that genuinely works from the zone is the stablecoin one.
05Is this figure a quotation?
No. It is a market reference published for orientation, carrying the moment it was read so its freshness is visible. A quotation exists only inside the payment flow, against a specific invoice, and it is recalculated if it expires before you act.
06How much can I pay in a single payment?
A floor and a ceiling both apply, and neither is ours to set: they come from the payout side. The band runs from around 55 CNY at the bottom to about 65,000 CNY at the top, but the figures that concern you are those shown in the flow, and they can change.
From the rate you checked to the amount you actually commit
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare XOF, USDT, USDC before funding.
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Built primarily for businesses
Built for importers and repeat supplier payers. A private individual paying a business invoice runs the same checks and gets the same quote — the recipient on this route is always a company.