yue
An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200…An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
» Cantonese is the prestige dialect of the Yue group.
Das Kantonesische ist der Prestigedialekt der Yue-Gruppe.
Meaning
2 senses(historical)An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
(historical)An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Examples
3 sentencesCantonese is the prestige dialect of the Yue group.
deDas Kantonesische ist der Prestigedialekt der Yue-Gruppe. — Yorwba
Wang Xiaoming and Wang Yue are both good friends of mine.
ruИ Ван Сяомин, и Ван Юэ — мои хорошие друзья. — Wezel
deWang Xiaoming und Wang Yue sind beide gute Freunde von mir. — cost
Jiang Feng's servant hired the twelve zodiac animals to kill Jiang Feng. They ambushed Jiang Feng and his wife, Yue Nu.
Origin
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
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Forms
plural: yue / yuesSynonyms
3 synonyms- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China:Yue dialectCantoneseCantonese dialect
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular