yue

plural yues · alternative obsolete yo

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

plural yues

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

alternative Yueh · alternative Yüeh · alternative Viet · alternative Việt · alternative Yuht · alternative Jyut

1. The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.

   One form of Yue—that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese.

   2000, George L. Campbell, “YUE (Cantonese)”, in Compendium of the World's Languages, page 1793

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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 dialects.

   1989, S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, page 98

2. People who speak a variety of Yue.

   If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue.

   1989, S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, page 98

3. Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
4. An ancient feudal state of China.

alternative Yueh · alternative Yüeh · alternative Viet · alternative Việt · alternative Yuht · alternative Jyut

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