What does "yue" mean?

An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.

What is a synonym for "yue"?

Common synonyms include: cantonese, cantonese dialect, viet, yue dialect.

//ˈjuːeɪ// name, noun

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Noun

1
An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds. historical
2
An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in historical
3
Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.
4
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China wordnet

Proper Noun

1
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."
2
People who speak a variety of Yue.
"If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue."
3
Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
4
An ancient feudal state of China.