Yue or Yueh ( ) may refer to:

Places

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, abbreviated (), a province of China *

Yue Nan Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous coun ...

(), the Chinese name for Vietnam *

Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_info2 = ( Hangzhounese) ( Ningbonese) (Wenzhounese) , image_skyline = 玉甑峰全貌 - panoramio.jpg , image_caption = View of the Yandang Mountains , image_map = Zhejiang i ...

, commonly abbreviated (), a province of China

Languages

Yue Chinese Yue () is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Northern and southern China, Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang). The term Cantonese is often used to refer ...

, a branch of Chinese, spoken primarily in and around Guangdong and Guangxi *

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

, a dialect of Yue Chinese, widely spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau *

Old Yue language The Old Yue language (, Vietnamese: Tiếng Việt cổ) is an unclassified language, or group(s) of various languages, spoken in ancient southern China, and northern Vietnam circa 700 BCE or later. It can refer to Yue, which was spoken in the re ...

, an extinct language or languages spoken by the Baiyue people of southern China and northern Vietnam.

People

Cantonese people The Cantonese people ( zh, s=广府人, t=廣府人, j=gwong2 fu2 jan4, cy=Gwóngfú Yàhn, first=t, labels=no) or Yue people ( zh, s=粤人, t=粵人, j=jyut6 jan4, cy=Yuht Yàhn, first=t, labels=no), are a Han Chinese subgroup originating fro ...

, or Yue people, a Yue-Chinese speaking ethnic group of China *

Yue (surname) Yuè is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family name 岳. In places which use the Wade-Giles romanization such as Taiwan, Yue is usually spelled as "Yüeh" or "Yueh". Yuè is also the pinyin transliteration of the surname 樂 in t ...

, a Chinese surname derived from Mandarin ( or ) or Cantonese () **

Yue Fei Yue Fei (; March 24, 1103 – January 28, 1142), courtesy name Pengju (), was a Chinese military general of the Song dynasty and is remembered as a patriotic folk hero, national hero, known for leading its forces in Jin–Song Wars, the wars ...

, Song dynasty general **

Shawn Yue Shawn Yue Man-lok (born 13 November 1981) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. A former model, he has starred in many films, such as ''Jiang Hu (2004 film), Jiang Hu'', ''Infernal Affairs II'', the ''Love in the Buff'' film series, ''Mad World (film) ...

, Hong Kong actor and singer * Yue, a

Chinese given name Chinese given names () are the given names adopted by speakers of the Chinese language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora. Description Chinese given names are almost always made up of one or - usually - two chara ...

derived from Mandarin (e.g. , , , and )

Fictional characters

* Yue (''Cardcaptor Sakura''), a character in the anime and manga séries ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' *

Yue Ayase The ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'' manga and anime series features a wide cast of fictional characters designed by Ken Akamatsu. The series follows Negi Springfield, a 10-year-old boy from Wales with magic powers, who becomes a teacher of a Jap ...

, a character from the anime and manga series ''Negima'' *

Yue Kato This article is a list of fictional characters in the manga series ''Angel Sanctuary''. Humans ; : :The current human incarnation of the Organic Angel, Alexiel. He is sixteen-years-old and is a troubled high school student with a crowd of frien ...

, a character in the manga series ''Angel Sanctuary'' *

Princess Yue This is a list of significant characters from the Nickelodeon animated television series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' and its sequel ''The Legend of Korra'', co-created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, as well the Avatar: The L ...

, a character in the television series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' *

Wellington Yueh ''Dune (franchise), Dune'' is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 Dune (novel), novel of the same name by American author Frank Herbert. ''Dune'' is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in histor ...

, a character from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' universe

Historical peoples

Baiyue The Baiyue, Hundred Yue, or simply Yue, were various ethnic groups who inhabited the regions of southern China and northern Vietnam during the 1st millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. They were known for their short hair, body tattoos, fine swo ...

, a collection of ancient peoples in coastal southern China *

Shanyue The Shanyue (山越) were an ancient conglomeration of upland Yue hill tribes living in what is today the mountainous regions of Southern China and Northern Vietnam during the Han dynasty. Since the Southern part of modern China prior to the ...

, a tribe residing in the Yue area during the Han dynasty

Historical states

Yue (state) Yue (), also known as Yuyue ( or ), was a Ancient Chinese states, state in ancient China which existed during the first millennium BC the Spring and Autumn period, Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, Warring States periods of China's ...

, an ancient state in eastern modern China during the Spring and Autumn period with non-Chinese cultural attributes. *

Minyue Minyue (; Pinyin: ''Mǐnyuè, Mínyuè'') was an ancient kingdom in what is now the Fujian province in southern China. It was a contemporary of the Han dynasty, and was later annexed by the Han empire as the Southward expansion of the Han dynas ...

, an ancient kingdom located at modern Fujian, a successor to the state of Yue. *

Nanyue Nanyue ( zh, c=南越 or 南粵, p=Nányuè, cy=, j=Naam4 Jyut6, l=Southern Yue, , ), was an ancient kingdom founded in 204 BC by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triệu dynasty) continued to rule until ...

, an ancient autonomous Chinese kingdom consisting of modern Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and northern Vietnam *

Wuyue Wuyue (; ) was a Dynasties in Chinese history, dynastic state of China and one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Ten Kingdoms, Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of History of China, Chinese history. It wa ...

, a state in modern Zhejiang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

Arts and sciences

* Yue (), a large Chinese axe * Yue (), an ancient Chinese unit of volume * Yue (), an ancient Chinese wind instrument *

Yueqin The ''yueqin'' (; ; ; or ), also called a moon lute or moon guitar, is a traditional Chinese musical instruments, traditional Chinese string instrument. It is a lute with a round, hollow soundboard, a short fretted neck, and usually four str ...

, a traditional Chinese string instrument *

Yue ware Yue ware or Yüeh ware () is a type of Chinese ceramics, a felspathic siliceous stoneware, which is characteristically decorated with celadon glazing. Yue ware is also sometimes called (Yuezhou) green porcelain () in modern literature, but the ...

, early Chinese celadon pottery