Meaning of Yue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
   historical
2. An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
   historical
3. The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.
4. Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.
5. People who speak a variety of Yue.
6. Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
7. An ancient feudal state of China.

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Examples

“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.”

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

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