Romanizations
Ye is also romanized Yeh in Wade-Giles and Yee or Ee idiosyncratically; Yip, Ip, and Jip in Cantonese; Iap, Yap, and Yeap in Hakka and Minnan; and Yeh or Diệp in Vietnamese.
In Ancient Chinese, Ye (葉) was probably pronounced Sjep (IPA: ). As late as the 11th-century Guangyun Dictionary, the character was a homophone for others pronounced sip in modern Cantonese and shè in modern Mandarin.
Note that "Yee" and "Ee" are normally employed for romanizing the Cantonese pronunciation of the unrelated Chinese surname 余 (Yu).
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