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Yue   /ju/   Listen
Yue

noun
1.
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.  Synonyms: Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue dialect.





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"Yue" Quotes from Famous Books



... foure yeares, berrid in this churcheyarde, over against ye tombe off Mrs. Marttha Stileman, about 10 fete fromm ye olde yue tre. Febevarie ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... of those rebellions which are a chronic feature of Chinese Society was in full bloom in the neighbouring province of Szechwan, where an individual named Yue Man-tze was heading a crusade against Christians and foreign influence, when at least one French father was slain and another held in prolonged captivity, despite all efforts of the local officials to ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready


Words linked to "Yue" :   Yue dialect, Chinese


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