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Yue

//ˈjuːeɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 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. 3
    Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
  4. 4
    An ancient feudal state of China.
Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds. historical
  2. 2
    An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in historical
  3. 3
    Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.
  4. 4
    the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).

Etymology 2

The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥 (yuè).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).

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