Yee

proper nounattested in dialogue

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

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A surname from Chinese.
“When I was growing up on the ranch, a retired Chinese man, who had farmed and lived all of his life in Vacaville, was living here on the ranch in a trailer. His name was Chong Yee. […]

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 余 (jyu⁴) or Taishanese 余 (yi³) or Hokkien 余 (Î) or Cantonese 爾 /尔 (ji⁵).

yeast · An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt…Yeast · A surname.yee · You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.

Yee · A surname from Chinese.

Yeh · A surname from Chinese [in turn from Mandarin].yell · To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice,…Yell · The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.