Yuezhi

See also: yuezhi

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Clan”) or 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”).

Pronunciation

  • (anglicized) IPA(key): /ˈjuˌdʒi/, sometimes even /ˈjuˌʒaɪ/, /ˈjuˌɛzi/
  • (closer to Chinese) /ˌjuˈɛd͡ʒi/, /juˈeɪ.d͡ʒi/, /-d͡ʒə/, /ju(ˈ)eɪˈt͡ʃi/
  • enPR: yüĕ′jœ′
  • Hyphenation: Yue‧zhi

Noun

Yuezhi pl (plural only)

  1. An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.

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