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Yue
Yue Yue written as 月 (moon) carries one of the richest symbolic inheritances in Chinese naming. The moon is beautiful but cold, full and then waning, always associated with distance and longing in Chinese poetry. Characters named Yue often occupy positions of emotional remove — admired, desired, but somehow always just out of reach. The name suits figures of quiet melancholy, or those whose beauty comes with a quality of unattainability.
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