Yue
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yue¹
Where it comes from
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
noun yue · yues · yo
- An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
yue²
Where it comes from
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥 (yuè).
noun yue · yues
- An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
Yue³
- /ˈjuːeɪ/
- /juːˈeɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).
proper noun Yueh · Yüeh · Viet · Việt · Yuht · Jyut
- The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese. The Yue dialects are popularly known as the Cantonese dialects. [...] The speech of Canton City, which is Cantonese in its narrower sense, is the best known and most generally esteemed of the Yue dialects.
- People who speak a variety of Yue. If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue.
- Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
- An ancient feudal state of China.
noun Yueh · Yüeh · Viet · Việt · Yuht · Jyut
- Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.
