English Explanatory Dictionary

yue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
noun
  1. An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
name
  1. The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.
  2. People who speak a variety of Yue.
  3. Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
  4. An ancient feudal state of China.
noun
  1. Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.

Pronunciation

/ˈjuːeɪ/ /juːˈeɪ/ yüě

Word forms

yue yues yo Yueh Yüeh Viet Việt Yuht Jyut

Etymology

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

Related words

Jyutping Vietnam yue
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