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Added 10 October 2026

yue

noun

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The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.

Origin

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

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