The modern Sinitic language which includes Cantonese (Canton) dialect. / People who speak Yue, such as the Cantonese and Taishanese.

(ceramics) Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.

Alternative spelling of yueqin

plural of yue qin

A short channel in Hong Kong between Junk Bay and Victoria Harbour, separating Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.

A crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)

The downtown district of modern Shaoxing, corresponding to the former Yue and imperial Chinese city of Kuaiji.

plural of yueqin

(music) A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.

An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.