yue

See also: Yue, yuē, yuě, and yuè

Translingual

Etymology

From Mandarin 粵／粤 (yuè), from 粵語／粤语 (yuèyǔ, “Cantonese language”).

Symbol

yue

1. (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)

1. (historical) An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.

Alternative forms

• yo (obsolete)

Etymology 2

The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥 (yuè).

Noun

yue (plural yue or yues)

1. (music, historical) An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in

Mandarin

Romanization

yue

1. Nonstandard spelling of yuē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yuě.
3. 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): /ˈʝwe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝwe]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝwe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝwe]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃwe/ [ˈʃwe]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒwe/ [ˈʒwe]

• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: yue

Noun

yue m (uncountable)

1. Yue (the Sinitic language which includes Cantonese)