粤 (yuè): Cantonese, short name for Guangdong 廣東|广东
粤 (yuè) is a Chinese character meaning “cantonese.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 囗 (structural), 米 (structural) and 丂 (structural). It ranks #2825 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- Cantonese
- short name for Guangdong 廣東|广东
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 粤语noun | yuè yǔ | Cantonese language |
| 粤菜noun | yuè cài | Cantonese cuisine |
| 粤港澳大湾区proper-noun | yuè gǎng ào dà wān qū | Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, established in 2017, consisting of Hong Kong, Macao and nine cities in Gu... |
| 粤汉铁路 | yuè hàn tiě lù | Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路[J... |
| 粤语拼音noun | yuè yǔ pīn yīn | Cantonese romanization |
| 粤海proper-noun | yuè hǎi | Guangdong-Hainan |
| 百粤proper-noun | bǎi yuè | Baiyue, generic term for southern ethnic groups |
| 川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽 | chuān lǔ yuè sū zhè mǐn xiāng huī | the cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui (the eight major cuisines of... |
| 粤剧noun | yuè jù | Cantonese opera |
| 粤拼noun | yuè pīn | Jyutping, one of the many Cantonese romanization systems |
| 闽粤 | mǐn yuè | Fujian and Guangdong |
| 粤绣 | yuè xiù | Guangdong embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1... |
粤 appears in 12 compound words: 75 as the first character, 17 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 粤 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这个粤字的意思与它的部首有关。
zhè gě yuè zì de yì sī yú tā de bù shǒu yǒu guān .
The meaning of the character "粤" is related to its radical.
金粤控股(00070)公布中期业绩 公司拥有...
jīn yuè kòng gǔ ( 0 0 0 7 0 ) gōng bù zhōng qī yè jì gōng sī yōng yǒu . . .
Jinyue Holdings (00070) announced interim results The company has...
粤港澳大湾区开行新年首趟冷链海铁联运班列
yuè gǎng ào dà wān qū kāi háng xīn nián shǒu tāng lěng liàn hǎi tiě lián yùn bān liè
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area opened the first cold chain sea-rail intermodal train in the new year
政府支持粤剧发展提供不同演出场地 李家超冀为粤剧传...
zhèng fǔ zhī chí yuè jù fā zhǎn tí gōng bù tóng yǎn chū chǎng dì lǐ jiā chāo 冀 wéi yuè jù chuán . . .
The government supports the development of Cantonese opera and provides different performance venues Li Jiachao hopes to spread Cantonese opera...
(粤港澳大湾区)今年以来深圳机场口岸出入境外...
( yuè gǎng ào dà wān qū ) jīn nián yǐ lái shēn 圳 jī chǎng kǒu àn chū rù jìng wài . . .
(Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) Since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen Airport Port has been outside the entry and exit...
...星洲餐饮掀倒闭潮 早年越洋落户港厨 依仗粤菜神髓守业
. . . xīng zhōu cān yǐn xiān dǎo bì cháo zǎo nián yuè yáng luò hù gǎng chú yī zhàng yuè cài shén suǐ shǒu yè
... Sin Chew Catering set off a wave of closures and settled in Hong Kong kitchens across the ocean in the early years, relying on the essence of Cantonese cuisine to keep its business
我听不懂同学说的粤语。
Wǒ tīngbudǒng tóngxué shuō de Yuèyǔ.
I cannot understand my school mate's Cantonese.
比起普通话歌，我更喜欢粤语歌。
Bǐqǐ pǔtōnghuà gē, wǒ gèng xǐhuan Yuèyǔ gē.
I like Cantonese music more than Mandarin music.
Character Family
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