yue
See also: Yue, yuē, yuě, and yuè
English
Etymology 1
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠.
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
- yo (obsolete)
Etymology 2
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 籥.
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
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- 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)
- Yue (the Sinitic language which includes Cantonese)