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yue

noun — 3 senses

Yue

nounalso spelled Yue

/ˈjuːeɪ/ · /juːˈeɪ/

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

1

Ceramics, Chemistry, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.

Related terms
Jyutping, Vietnam, yue

yue

noun

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

1

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

yue

noun

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

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Historical An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for Yue and yue.