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A Chinese gift card stores value in Japanese yen?

Was there some kind of mix up? Are they laundering their money using foreign currency? Or does US Ikea not understand the difference between Yen and Yuan?



¥ is the symbol for both yen and yuan.


Interestingly, many Chinese believe that the two currencies use different symbols, with one of them using one crossbar on the Y and the other using two.

I am not aware of any such distinction being drawn in reality, though.




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