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Yueh-chih

Yueh-chih 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

Origin of Yueh-chih

From Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī) or Mandarin 月支 (Yuèzhī) Wade–Giles romanization: Yüeh⁴-chih¹.

Questions about Yueh-chih

What is Yueh-chih the alternative form of?
Yueh-chih is the alternative form of Yuezhi.

Words near Yueh-chih in the dictionary

  1. yue qins
  2. Yuecheng
  3. Yuechi
  4. Yueh
  5. Yueh-chi
  6. Yueh-chih
  7. yuehchukene
  8. Yuehu
  9. Yuelu
  10. yuen
  11. Yuen Long

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Yueh-chih (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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