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▪ I. Yüeh1|ˈjyə|
Also Yueh.
[f. the name Yüeh Chou of a town (now called Shaoxing) in Zhejiang Province, China.]
A type of stoneware distinguished by a celadon glaze, first produced in the Six Dynasties period and perfected during the Tang dynasty. Freq. attrib., esp. as Yüeh ware.
[1887Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. N. China Branch XXII. 134 The author of the T‘ao-Shuo begins his treatise on ancient porcelains with the Yüeh-chou potteries of the T‘ang dynasty.] 1910S. W. Bushell Descr. Chinese Pott. & Porc. ii. ii. 35 The Hsing-chou porcelain resembles silver, while the Yueh-chou porcelain resembles jade... Hsing is inferior to Yueh. 1915R. L. Hobson Chinese Pott. & Porc. v. 59 Surely this cannot be far removed from the ‘secret colour’ of the Yueh ware. 1933Burlington Mag. Sept. 122/2 When Yüeh Chou was capital of a principality, Yüeh ware was made exclusively for the princely court and was known as pi sê yao or ware of forbidden colour. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vi. 439 In 1930 a Yüeh Kiln was found by Yonayama at Tê-ch‘ing near Hangchow. Ibid. vi. 442 A number of whole bowls in the shape of lotus flowers are illustrated, all reputedly being Yüeh yao. 1972Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 23 The fully evolved ware which T'ang poets praised is generally termed Yüeh ware..the earlier product being called Old Yüeh by the Japanese.
▪ II. Yüeh2|ˈjyə|
Also Yueh.
[a. Chinese.]
(A member of) a group of peoples originally living in the coastal provinces of southern China, who expanded into south-east Asia during the third century b.c.
1901E. A. Parker China ii. 23 The..Yüeh tribes..seem to have very soon lost their separate identity, and to have either permanently retired into Annam proper or to have been merged into the Chinese. 1934K. S. Latourette Chinese i. ii. 51 Both Wu and Yüeh seem to have depended in part upon boats for their victories, navigating these craft on the sea and on the rivers and lakes in which their possessions abounded. 1966W. G. Goddard Formosa i. 16 The Yueh in coastal China. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 5 At the beginning of the Christian era well-established trade links existed between South China, India and the Red Sea. Many different traders and sailors joined in operating this route,..leaving the Yuehs to control the final sector. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 120/1 A long-held notion that identified the Vietnamese with one tribe of the Viets of southern China (Yüeh in Chinese) has been abandoned.
▪ III. Yüeh3|ˈjyə|
Also Yue.
[ad. Chinese Yuè, a former name for Guangdong province.]
A Chinese dialect spoken in parts of the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. Freq. attrib.
1954M. A. Pei Dict. Ling. 34 Cantonese..spoken in Kwang-tung... The indigenous name of this vernacular is Yüeh. 1961Chang-tu Hu et al. China v. 101 Yüeh or Cantonese is spoken by some forty million people in China and abroad. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/2 The most important representative of the Yüeh languages is Standard Cantonese of Canton, Hong Kong, and Macao. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 70 Yue dialect: most of Guang dong and south eastern Guang xi. 1982C. Thomas Jade Tiger ii. 43 The man spoke in northern Min dialect as opposed to his own expatriate Yue dialect. |