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yue
UK /ˈjuːeɪ/ US /ˈjuːeɪ/
name 4noun 3
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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