yuè
Guangdong and Guangxi provinces
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 粵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Cantonese language | ||
Cantonese | ||
Cantonese opera | ||
Cantonese cuisine | ||
Fujian and Guangdong |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷat | hjwot | yuè | generous, favorable |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3151st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7CB5 |
Shuowen | “粵，亏也。審慎之詞者。从亏，从宷。《周書》曰：‘粵三日丁亥。’” |
Sources
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