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yue
/ˈjuːeɪ/
name 4noun 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
good
VERB + YUE
esteemed, form, xiaoming
YUE + NOUN
canton, dial, dialects, group, nu
ADV.
popularly
Definitions
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.
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.
One form of Yue—that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese.
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.
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Synonyms
noun — the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring prov
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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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 dial
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One form of Yue—that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese.
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If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue.
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Cantonese is the prestige dialect of the Yue group.
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Jiang Feng's servant hired the twelve zodiac animals to kill Jiang Feng. They ambushed Jiang Feng and his wife, Yue Nu.
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Wang Xiaoming and Wang Yue are both good friends of mine.
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