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Yue
Yue can refer to:
- Yuč ((T: 粵 S: 粤), an abbreviation for Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China, and also:
- Yue, a subdivision of spoken Chinese spoken in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Its prestige form is called Standard Cantonese (or simply "Cantonese")
- Yuč (越), a name associated with several concepts related to coastal South China, including:
- The Yue peoples, a collection of ancient peoples in coastal southern China. They included groups such as the Luoyue (T: 駱越 S: 骆越) and Minyue (T: 閩越 S: 闽越), and inhabited the modern provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi
- The state of Yue, a state in modern northern Zhejiang province during the Spring and Autumn Period
- Wuyue, a state in modern Zhejiang province during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
- Vietnam. The "viet-" in the word is cognate to this Chinese word.
- Yue is a character in the anime and manga Cardcaptor Sakura
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