

After the use of the Spanish dollar and silver Chinese yuan in Taiwan, it issued the Taiwanese yen in 1895, followed by the Old Taiwan dollar in 1946. The various currencies called yuan or dollar issued in China, as well as the Japanese yen, were all derived from the Spanish American silver dollar, which China imported in large quantities from Spanish America through Spanish Philippines in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade from the 16th to 20th centuries. Nevertheless, banks do record cents (hundredth of dollars). Subdivisions of a New Taiwan dollar are rarely used since practically all products on the consumer market are sold in whole dollars. In English usage, the New Taiwan dollar is often abbreviated as NT, NT$, or NT dollar, while the abbreviation TWD is typically used in the context of foreign exchange rates. The name 仙 in Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka for cent is likely from the hundredth unit 錢 (sen) of Japanese era Taiwanese yen or from English. They are both pronounced yuán in Mandarin but have different pronunciations in Taiwanese Hokkien (îⁿ, goân) and Hakka (yèn, ngièn). The currency unit name can be written as 圓 or 元, which are interchangeable. These contexts include banking, contracts, or foreign exchange. The adjective "new" ( 新) is only added in formal contexts where it is necessary to avoid any ambiguity, even though ambiguity is virtually non-existent today. The central bank began issuing New Taiwan dollar banknotes in July 2000, and the notes issued by the Bank of Taiwan were taken out of circulation. Prior to 2000, the Bank of Taiwan issued banknotes as the de facto central bank between 19, and after 1961 continued to issue banknotes as a delegate of the central bank. The central bank of Taiwan has issued the New Taiwan Dollar since 2000. Colloquially, the currency unit is called both 元 ( yúan, literally "circle") and 塊 ( kuài, literally "piece") in Mandarin, 箍 ( kho͘, literally "hoop") in Hokkien, and 銀 ( ngiùn, literally "silver") in Hakka. The unit of the dollar is typically informally written with the simpler equivalent character as 元, except when writing it for legal transactions such as at the bank, when it has to be written as 圓. There are a variety of alternative names for the units in Taiwan. The basic unit of the New Taiwan dollar is called a yuan ( 圓) and is subdivided into ten chiao ( 角), and into 100 fen ( 分) or cents, although in practice both chiao and fen are never actually used. The New Taiwan dollar has been the currency of the island of Taiwan since 1949, when it replaced the old Taiwan dollar, at a rate of 40,000 old dollars per one new dollar. The New Taiwan dollar ( code: TWD symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT) is the official currency of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Subunits used only in stocks and currency transactions, and are rarely referred toĬentral Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) The language(s) of this currency do(es) not have a morphological plural distinction. For other uses, see TWD (disambiguation).
