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Canton vs Yue - What's the difference?

canton | yue |

As proper nouns the difference between canton and yue

is that canton is guangzhou (a city of china) while yue is the modern sinitic language which includes cantonese (canton) dialect iso 639-3: yue.

As a noun yue is

(ceramics) yue ware, a southern chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.

canton

English

(wikipedia canton)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* kanton

Noun

(en noun)
  • A division of a political unit.
  • * Davies
    • that little canton of land called the "English pale"
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • There is another piece of Holbein's, in which, in six several cantons , the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.
  • # One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
  • # A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
  • # A division of Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
  • A small community or clan.
  • A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
  • (heraldiccharge) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
  • * Evelyn
    • The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To delineate as a separate district.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A song or canto.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Write loyal cantons of contemned love.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    yue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Yueh, * Viet * Yuht, Jyut

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The modern Sinitic language which includes Cantonese (Canton) dialect. ISO 639-3: yue
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , title=The Languages of China , author=S. Robert Ramsey , page=98 , passage=The Yue' dialects are popularly known as the Cantonese dialects. [...] The speech of Canton City, which is Cantonese in its narrower sense, is the best known and most generally esteemed of the ' Yue dialects.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2000 , chapter=YUE (Cantonese) , title=Compendium of the World's Languages , author=George L. Campbell , passage=One form of Yue —that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese. , page=1793}}
  • People who speak Yue, such as the Cantonese and Taishanese
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , title=The Languages of China , author=S. Robert Ramsey , page=98 , passage=If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue .}}
  • Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages

    • Noun

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

    • Related terms

    * Vietnam

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