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Yüeh

Yüeh is the alternative spelling of Yue.

Meaning of Yue

Proper noun

Yue

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

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Questions about Yüeh

What is Yüeh the alternative spelling of?
Yüeh is the alternative spelling of Yue.

Words near Yüeh in the dictionary

  1. Yü-li
  2. Yü-lin
  3. Yü-t'ien
  4. Yü-tien
  5. Yüan
  6. Yüeh
  7. yüeh-ch'in
  8. yüeh-ch'ins
  9. Yüeh-p'u-hu
  10. Yün-ch'eng
  11. Yün-meng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yüeh (page history and authors); Yue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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