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Translingual
Etymology
From Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè), from 粵語／粤语 (yuèyǔ, “Cantonese language”).
Symbol
yue
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cantonese.
English
Etymology 1
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
Noun
yue (plural yue or yues)
- (historical) An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥 (yuè).
Noun
yue (plural yue or yues)
- (music, historical) An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
Mandarin
Romanization
yue
- Nonstandard spelling of yuē.
- Nonstandard spelling of yuě.
- Nonstandard spelling of yuè.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝwe/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃwe/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒwe/
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: yue
Noun
yue m (uncountable)
- Yue (the Sinitic language which includes Cantonese)