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Yue en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /juːˈeɪ/
  • yüě
  • /ˈjuːeɪ/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.

Forms

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Yüeh alternative lexicographic

Relateds

Vietnam · yue · Jyutping

Source: en.wiktionary, “Yue” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Yue en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /juːˈeɪ/
  • yüě
  • /ˈjuːeɪ/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.
    • One form of Yue—that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese. 2000, George L. Campbell, “YUE (Cantonese)”, in Compendium of the World's Languages, page 1793:
    • 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. 1989, S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, page 98:
  2. People who speak a variety of Yue.
    • If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue. 1989, S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, page 98:
  3. Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
  4. An ancient feudal state of China.

Forms

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Translations (11)

es yue (variety of Chinese) · sv yue (variety of Chinese) · hak 粵語 /粤语 (variety of Chinese) · cmn 粵語 /粤语 (variety of Chinese) · ru ю́э (variety of Chinese) · nan-hbl 粵語 /粤语 (variety of Chinese) · yue 粵語 /粤语 (variety of Chinese) · ru канто́нский (variety of Chinese) · fr yue (variety of Chinese) · sv kantonesiska (variety of Chinese) · ms bahasa Yue (variety of Chinese)