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From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 葉/叶 (Yeh⁴).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A surname from Chinese [in turn from Mandarin]. Full definition →
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 葉/叶 (Yeh⁴).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.