Yue

Yuename/ˈjuːeɪ/

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  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.
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  People who speak a variety of Yue.

  • If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue.
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  Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.

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  An ancient feudal state of China.

Yuenoun/ˈjuːeɪ/

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

yuenoun詞源 1

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  historicalAn ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.

yuenoun詞源 2

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  historicalentertainmentlifestylemusicAn ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in