Ye
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ye"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉/叶 (Yè).
Proper noun
[edit]Ye (plural Yes)
- A surname from Chinese.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ye is the 3609th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9839 individuals. Ye is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (97.02%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ye”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Etymology 2
[edit]Shortened from Kanye.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ye
- (slang before 2021) Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Usage notes
[edit]- West legally changed his name to Ye in 2021.
Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]Ye
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- English terms derived from Chinese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Chinese
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪ
- Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English slang
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- Japanese non-lemma forms
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