Talk:Currency/@comment-2124931-20120410151927/@comment-80.101.133.150-20120427061132

the only refferences i can give you as of now, based on the first 3 episodes (not counting the legend of aang, as that's a different era)

1] at the food stand (episode 1) when korra asked for 'one of each' the woman asked for 20 yuan. It's not exactly known how many pieces of food one would get, as i don't know the amount of variety she offers. there seemed to be at least 4 but likely more types of food.

2] in episode 3, bolin was making his pet pabu do tricks for money, only one guy gave him 1 yuan.

3] 30.000 yuan was required as a fee to enter the tournament, which would make part of the price pot.

4] Shady Shin dropped a large amount of money (a stack of 25's assuming it were really 25's like the one in the picture and an average size stack holds 50 notes it would be 1.250 yuan. To bolin, this looked like a huge amount of money. note that it could be more or less though, as it's impossable to count the number of notes.

5] this one is mostly assumption, because it's hard to figure out, but Mako paid Skootchy 2 bills (hard to see the color on those frames, but they may also be the red ones). either way, he gave anything between 10 and 50 yuan. he did this after a day of work, i'm not sure if he got the money from his work directly, or if he had the money in the first place, but judging on how his brother had to borrow money for buying groceries, it's reasonably to conclude that Mako got at least that amount for 1 day of work. Also note that he bought groceries (dumplings), which he likely paid directly as he had some notes with him. He also claimed that the work at the power plant paid well, which would make sense because fire bending is an art in itself which not everyone masters, and only the most capable firebenders are able to bend lightning. so it would only make sense that such a job pais well. It's likely that he got at least 100 yuan a day from that job.

it's interesting to note that china and japan never really use the number 25 in their bills, they usually use 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 etc. (see the pattern?) real chinese yuan currently is worth much less then a dollar, as 1 dollar is roughly 6.3 yuan.