1887 Jrnl. N.-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 22 134 The author of the T‘ao-Shuo begins his treatise on ancient porcelains with the Yüeh-chou potteries of the T‘ang dynasty.]

1910 S. W. Bushell Descr. Chinese Pottery & Porcelain ii. ii. 35 The Hsing-chou porcelain resembles silver, while the Yueh-chou porcelain resembles jade... Hsing is inferior to Yueh.

1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain v. 59 Surely this cannot be far removed from the ‘secret colour’ of the Yueh ware.

1933 Burlington 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.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vi. 439 In 1930 a Yüeh Kiln was found by Yonayama at Tê-ch‘ing near Hangchow.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vi. 442 A number of whole bowls in the shape of lotus flowers are illustrated, all reputedly being Yüeh yao.

1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. 38 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.

1901 E. H. 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.

1934 K. 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.

1966 W. G. Goddard Formosa i. 16 The Yueh in coastal China.

1972 M. 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.

1974 Encycl. 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.

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 34 Cantonese..spoken in Kwang-tung... The indigenous name of this vernacular is Yüeh.

1961 Chang-tu Hu et al. China v. 101 Yüeh or Cantonese is spoken by some forty million people in China and abroad.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/2 The most important representative of the Yüeh languages is Standard Cantonese of Canton, Hong Kong, and Macao.

1978 Nagel's Encycl.-guide: China (ed. 3) 70 Yue dialect: most of Guang dong and south eastern Guang xi.

1982 C. Thomas Jade Tiger ii. 43 The man spoke in northern Min dialect as opposed to his own expatriate Yue dialect.

1956 W. C. White Bronze Culture Ancient China 4 Axes (Yüeh), the most common type of axe is found in a variety of shapes.

1956 W. C. White Bronze Culture Ancient China 58 (caption) Axe-head (Yüeh), with socket for hafting.

1960 Chêng Tê-k'un Archaeol. in China II. iv. 69 Larger, and consequently richer, tombs would be provided with bronze vessels as well as weapons, such as ko dagger axes..yueh broad-axes.

1964 M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 14/2 Axes, called yüeh, ch'i or fu, are either tanged or socketed.

1978 New Archaeol. Finds in China II. 29 Also found was a bronze weapon yueh.