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Yuechi

Yuechi is the alternative form of Yuezhi.

Meaning of Yuezhi

Noun

Yuezhi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
    Synonyms:
    Rouzhi

Questions about Yuechi

What is Yuechi the alternative form of?
Yuechi is the alternative form of Yuezhi.

Words near Yuechi in the dictionary

  1. yuds
  2. yue
  3. yue qin
  4. yue qins
  5. Yuecheng
  6. Yuechi
  7. Yueh
  8. Yueh-chi
  9. Yueh-chih
  10. yuehchukene
  11. Yuehu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yuechi (page history and authors); Yuezhi (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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