Etymology

yue

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Today it means: An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds. Full definition →

Chinese 龠
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yue · noun1

  1. Chinese · derived from龠
  2. English todayyue

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

yue · noun2

  1. Chinese · derived from籥
  2. English todayyue

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

Yue · proper noun, noun3

Borrowed from Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).

Words from the same roots

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