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yuen

yuen noun: a crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

Noun

yuen

  1. A crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)

Proper noun capitalized: Yuen

Yuen (plural Yuens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of yuen

pluralYuens

Origin of yuen

Borrowed from Cantonese 袁 (jyun4) or 阮 (jyun2).

Questions about yuen

What does yuen mean?
Yuen means a crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).
What part of speech is yuen?
Yuen can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near yuen in the dictionary

  1. Yueh-chi
  2. Yueh-chih
  3. yuehchukene
  4. Yuehu
  5. Yuelu
  6. yuen
  7. Yuen Long
  8. Yuengling
  9. Yuenglings
  10. Yuens
  11. yuenyeung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yuen (page history and authors); Yuen (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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