Yuan to Sri Lankan rupees: which yuan, and for how long
The figure you looked up this morning is not a price you can hold anyone to on Friday.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
100, 1,000 and 10,000 yuan to Sri Lankan rupees at this rate
- ¥100
- ≈ LKR 4,898
- ¥1,000
- ≈ LKR 48,979
- ¥10,000
- ≈ LKR 489,793
- LKR 1,000
- ≈ ¥20.42
- LKR 10,000
- ≈ ¥204.17
- LKR 100,000
- ≈ ¥2,041.68
Price a CNY invoice
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ LKR 489,793
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
Two things are worth settling before a rupee figure is any use at all. First, which yuan: Japanese prices are a familiar sight in Sri Lanka and the ¥ symbol belongs to both currencies. Second, what the number is for. A rupee reading tells you the size of a Chinese price. The invoice you eventually pay is denominated in CNY, and everything the rupee does between the quotation and the payment happens to you rather than to your supplier.
- Yuan and yen told apart
- Indicative reference, not a quote
- Rupees buy the stablecoin
Identify the currency, then decide what it is for
A reading sizes an order and can go stale. An agreed CNY total is what the supplier reconciles against and does not move when the rupee does.
- Check first
- LKR · USDT · USDC
- Fixed in
- CNY
- Funded with
- LKR · USDT · USDC
LKR
Bank transfer in Sri Lanka, 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 100 yuan in Sri Lankan rupees?
Whatever today's reference says — with two caveats that matter more than the decimals. If the price came from a Japanese seller it is yen, not yuan: the ¥ symbol is shared between the two currencies, and Japanese yuan is a search term rather than a currency name. And if you are converting because you are about to agree a price with a Chinese supplier, the rupee figure is orientation only. The proforma will be denominated in CNY, that CNY total is what your supplier expects regardless of what the rupee does afterwards, and there is no rupee leg anywhere in this payment.
Any figure here is an indicative market reference timestamped in Colombo time. It is not a quote and it is not held for you.
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
Yuan or yen: the Sri Lankan version of a very common mix-up
Japan has long been one of the most familiar foreign sources of vehicles, parts and machinery reaching Sri Lanka, and China is the most familiar source of nearly everything else. A buyer here can plausibly have a Japanese price and a Chinese price open in the same week, both written with the same ¥ sign, neither carrying a currency code. That is why the confusion shows up in Sri Lankan searches specifically, and it is not carelessness — it is two real trades meeting on one symbol.
Thirty seconds settles it. A mainland Chinese supplier's documents will show CNY, RMB, 元 or 人民币, and the bank details they send you will be for an account denominated in CNY. Japanese documents show JPY or 円. If the figure came from a marketplace listing with the currency stripped out, go back to the proforma or the bank details rather than to a converter, because a converter will cheerfully convert the wrong currency for you and give you a confident-looking number.
- Chinese yuan: the code is CNY, the documents carry 元 or 人民币, and the account at the far end is denominated in it. If the goods are leaving mainland China, this is the currency the proforma is written in.
- Japanese yen: the code is JPY and the character is 円. An auction sheet, a Japanese exporter's invoice or anything sourced through a Japanese used-vehicle channel is yen, whatever the bare ¥ in front of the number suggests.
- The tie-breaker is the ISO code on the proforma or the currency of the receiving account, not the symbol.
- Sense-check the item: the two figures differ by more than an order of magnitude, so one of the two readings will look implausible for the goods.
Who carries the movement between agreeing and paying
This is the part a converter cannot warn you about. If you negotiate by promising a supplier the equivalent of some rupee amount, you have taken every movement between the handshake and the payment onto yourself, and handed them a figure their books cannot use. Their invoice, their bank and their accounting are in CNY. Agree the CNY total, treat the rupee equivalent as your own running estimate, and the only thing that can move afterwards is what you fund — never what they are owed.
The same caution applies to per-unit arithmetic. A single-unit price is for deciding whether to keep talking; it is not what anyone gets billed. Suppliers quote per carton, price a sample differently from a production run, and round — and then issue one CNY total that owes nothing to your multiplication. Ask for that total early, and let the rupee figure be your estimate of it rather than the other way round.
Inside the payment flow the number behaves differently again. A quote states both sides — what you fund and the exact CNY the recipient receives — and if its hold lapses before you act, the price is checked again and you see the new amount before the next step rather than after it.
What the payment is, and what stays with you
There is no single-step rupee route into this payment. The journey collects in one currency only and it is not the Sri Lankan rupee, so funding is USDT or USDC held in your Unigox Wallet — and rupees are what buy that balance, on Unigox, at a price stated before the purchase. Your side of the cost is therefore two prices taken at two moments, both of them ours. The payment half carries conditions: the recipient must be a business holding a mainland Chinese bank account on the CNAPS rail, an individual's account is refused server-side, and you will need the company name in Latin letters and in Chinese characters, the account number as their statement prints it, the receiving bank and a mainland mobile number. Each payment is declared as goods or services. Quoting has been running from roughly 55 CNY to about 65,000 CNY, read from live liquidity at the moment you ask rather than fixed on this page.
What a Sri Lankan payer owes their own bank in explanation and records is not something we have verified, and we are not going to summarise it. Ask your bank and your adviser, and ask before the payment rather than after. If a route ever looks attractive mainly because it seems to avoid a step, that is precisely the moment to ask rather than to proceed. The business payout mode here is also new — tested end to end, without a long production history — which is a reason to make a first payment small and unhurried.
Built for the way Sri Lanka pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for Sri Lanka, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
What Sri Lankan buyers ask next
01Is Japanese yuan a currency?
No. Japan's currency is the yen, code JPY. The two currencies share the ¥ symbol, which is where the phrase comes from. If your figure came from a Japanese seller or auction sheet, none of the CNY figures on this page apply to it.
02Are RMB, CNY and yuan the same thing?
Yes — three names, one currency, differing only in register. Renminbi is what the currency is called, yuan is the unit a price is counted in, and CNY is the code a bank uses. The useful consequence for a buyer here is that any of the three settles the question this page opened with: the account at the other end is a mainland Chinese one, and the total on the document is the number to fix with your supplier.
03Should I agree a rupee price with my supplier?
We would not. A rupee promise is something their accounts cannot reconcile, and it quietly transfers currency risk from them to you between the agreement and the payment. Fix the CNY total and let the rupee equivalent be your own estimate.
04Can I fund the payment from a Sri Lankan bank account?
Not into the invoice itself. There is no LKR collection leg, so the order is funded from USDT or USDC in your Unigox Wallet. A Sri Lankan account can pay for that balance, though — the purchase is priced on Unigox and shown to you before it goes through.
05Does my supplier need to know how I funded it?
No. They receive ordinary CNY into their company bank account. No wallet, no exchange account, and no involvement in how your side was funded.
Read the rupee figure, then fix the number that matters
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare LKR, 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.