Yee
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "yee"
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Hokkien 余 (Î) or Taishanese 余 (yi3) or Cantonese 爾/尔 (ji5).
Proper noun[edit]
Yee
- A surname from Chinese.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Yee is the 1740th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 20591 individuals. Yee is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (83.54%).
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English Yee, from either Taishanese 余 (yi3) or Cantonese 余 (jyu4) or Mandarin 余 (yú), perhaps from Hokkien 余 (î).
Proper noun[edit]
Yee
- a surname from Cantonese [in turn from Hokkien] or from Mandarin [in turn from Hokkien]
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English Yee, from either Taishanese 余 (yi3) or Cantonese 余 (jyu4) or Mandarin 余 (yú), perhaps from Hokkien 余 (î).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈji/ [ˈji]
- Rhymes: -i
Proper noun[edit]
Yee (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜒ)
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese [in turn from Hokkien] or from Mandarin [in turn from Hokkien]
See also[edit]
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Hokkien
- English terms derived from Hokkien
- English terms borrowed from Taishanese
- English terms derived from Taishanese
- English terms borrowed from Cantonese
- English terms derived from Cantonese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Chinese
- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano terms derived from Taishanese
- Cebuano terms derived from Cantonese
- Cebuano terms derived from Mandarin
- Cebuano terms derived from Hokkien
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- Cebuano surnames
- Cebuano surnames from Cantonese
- Cebuano surnames from Hokkien
- Cebuano surnames from Mandarin
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog terms derived from Taishanese
- Tagalog terms derived from Cantonese
- Tagalog terms derived from Mandarin
- Tagalog terms derived from Hokkien
- Tagalog 1-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/i
- Rhymes:Tagalog/i/1 syllable
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog surnames
- Tagalog surnames from Cantonese
- Tagalog surnames from Hokkien
- Tagalog surnames from Mandarin