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The modern variety of Chinese, which includes Cantonese and Taishanese.
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People who speak a variety of Yue.
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Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages.
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An ancient feudal state of China.
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An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
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Usage: historical
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An ancient Chinese wind instrument thought to have been a long piece of bamboo with holes drilled in
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Usage: historical
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.
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Topics: ceramics, chemistry, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect
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Broader terms: Chinese
History
Borrowed from Mandarin 粵/粤 (yuè) or Mandarin 越 (yuè).
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥 (yuè).
Across languages
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