Yuan to taka: first, which yuan?
Two currencies use the ¥ sign. Only one of them is Chinese.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
100, 1,000 and 10,000 yuan to taka at this rate
- ¥100
- ≈ BDT 1,834
- ¥1,000
- ≈ BDT 18,340
- ¥10,000
- ≈ BDT 183,397
- BDT 1,000
- ≈ ¥54.53
- BDT 10,000
- ≈ ¥545.27
- BDT 100,000
- ≈ ¥5,452.66
Price a CNY invoice
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ BDT 183,397
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
Two currencies share the ¥ sign, and only one of them is Chinese — which is why a taka figure is no use until you know whether the invoice in front of you is in yuan or in yen. The Korean won is the third that gets mixed in: a different currency again, written ₩, and never called yuan. Thirty seconds spent on the code is worth more than any conversion.
- CNY, JPY and KRW told apart
- Indicative reference, not a quote
- Supplier invoices settled in CNY
Identify the currency, then read the number
The ¥ symbol belongs to both the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen. The three-letter code beside it — CNY or JPY — is the part that settles the question.
- Chinese yuan
- BDT · USDT · USDC
- Japanese yen
- BDT · USDT · USDC
- Korean won
- BDT · USDT · USDC
BDT
Bank transfer in Bangladesh, 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 1 yuan in taka?
It depends which yuan, and that is not a pedantic answer. Chinese yuan — CNY, also written RMB or 元 — is the currency on a Chinese factory invoice. Japanese yen is a different currency from a different country, written JPY or 円 and sharing the ¥ symbol with the Chinese yuan; “Japanese yuan” is not a currency name at all, yet more people in Bangladesh search for it than for the Chinese one. Korean won, KRW, is a third. A CNY figure and a JPY figure differ by more than an order of magnitude, so mixing them up is not a rounding error. It is the difference between a plausible invoice and an impossible one.
Any figure shown here is an indicative market reference, timestamped in Dhaka time. It is not a quote, and no taka passes through this product at any point.
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
How to tell which currency your figure is in
The confusion here is structural rather than careless. Chinese yuan and Japanese yen genuinely share the ¥ symbol, the character 元 turns up in both writing systems, and a price copied out of a marketplace listing often arrives with no currency code attached to it at all.
- Chinese yuan: CNY or RMB, written ¥ or 元, and 人民币 on a Chinese document. This is what a mainland factory or trading company invoices in.
- Japanese yen: JPY, written ¥ or 円. If the seller, the marketplace or the shipping origin is Japanese, this is almost certainly what you are looking at.
- Korean won: KRW or ₩. Everyday goods are priced in four and five figures, which is usually the giveaway on its own.
- Still unsure: look for the ISO code on the proforma invoice or on the bank details. A mainland Chinese supplier's account will be denominated in CNY.
Sanity-check the number, not just the converter
A converter will happily convert the wrong currency for you. The cheapest defence is to ask whether the price makes sense for the item. A Chinese factory quoting a garment accessory at single or double-digit yuan a piece is ordinary; the same figure read as yen would be implausibly cheap for anything manufactured, and read as won cheaper still.
The second check is scale. Most people arrive at a converter with “1 yuan” and multiply, which holds up until the quantities are real. A rate carried to four decimal places, multiplied across ten thousand pieces, drifts away from what the invoice will say — and the invoice, not your multiplication, is the number the supplier is expecting. Fix the CNY total with them and treat the taka equivalent as a running estimate rather than agreeing a taka figure and finding the yuan has moved underneath it.
What this connects to, if the invoice is real
If the reason you are converting is that you owe a Chinese supplier, Unigox settles the CNY side: their company account in China receives the invoiced yuan, and you fund the payment with USDT or USDC held in your Unigox Wallet. The recipient has to be a business with a Chinese bank account — an individual's account is refused on this route — and payments are declared as goods or services. Amounts have run from roughly 55 CNY to about 65,000 CNY, with the live limits shown in the flow.
There is no taka leg. Bank funding in BDT is not available in this journey today, so the taka side stays with you and your bank, along with what an import payment requires of you as an importer. That is not a hedge. It is where this product stops, and we would rather draw the line here than let a page imply it goes further.
Built for the way Bangladesh pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for Bangladesh, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
Yuan, yen and taka: the questions that keep recurring
01Is “Japanese yuan” a currency?
No. Japan's currency is the yen, code JPY. The confusion comes from the ¥ symbol, which both the yen and the Chinese yuan use. If your figure came from a Japanese seller or site, it is yen, and none of the CNY figures on this page apply to it.
02My supplier's invoice only shows ¥. How do I know which one it is?
Check the three-letter code on the document, or look at the bank details. A mainland Chinese company invoices and banks in CNY. If the document shows 元 or 人民币 it is Chinese yuan; 円 is Japanese yen. When it is genuinely ambiguous, ask the supplier to restate the total with the currency code before you agree to it.
03Are RMB and yuan the same thing?
Yes. Renminbi (人民币, abbreviated RMB) is the name of the currency, yuan is the unit you count in, and CNY is the ISO code. A proforma reading RMB 20,000, CNY 20,000 or ¥20,000 from a Chinese supplier is describing the same amount.
04Is the taka figure on this page a quote?
No. It is an indicative market reference with a timestamp, published so you can tell a plausible Chinese price from an implausible one — which, on a page about three currencies wearing one symbol, is most of what a figure is for. Nothing here is executable and nothing here commits us to a rate; the executable figure is issued in the flow, against one invoice.
05Can I pay a Chinese supplier in taka?
Not in this journey today. The collection leg is fixed to a single currency in the backend and it is not BDT, so funding comes from USDT or USDC in your Unigox Wallet. The supplier still receives ordinary CNY into their company bank account.
Once you know it is CNY, here is what it settles
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare BDT, USDT, USDC before funding.
Price a CNY invoiceRelated China guides
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.