yue

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

yue

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cantonese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cantonese terms

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

yue (plural yue or yues)

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

• yo (obsolete)

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

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

yue

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゆえ

yue

1. (Mainland China Internet slang) alternative form of 噦 / 哕 (“to vomit”)

yue

1. nonstandard spelling of yuē
2. nonstandard spelling of yuě
3. nonstandard spelling of yuè

• 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.

• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: yue

yue m (uncountable)

1. Yue (the Sinitic language which includes Cantonese)