Explore Yuezhi through 2 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Yuezhi in a sentence
Yuezhi meaning
An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
Using Yuezhi
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
Context around Yuezhi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yuezhi
- In this selection, "yuezhi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, destroyed stand out and add context to how "yuezhi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 30 bc yuezhi destroyed the and of the yuezhi. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yuezhi" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yuezhi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
By the time Zhang Qian visited, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrians were under the suzerainty of the Yuezhi. (23 words)
During the time period from 90 BC to 30 BC, Yuezhi destroyed the last Hellenistic successor states and, together with the Tokhari, (to whom they were closely related) created a Kushan Empire around 30 AD. (35 words)
During the time period from 90 BC to 30 BC, Yuezhi destroyed the last Hellenistic successor states and, together with the Tokhari, (to whom they were closely related) created a Kushan Empire around 30 AD. (35 words)
By the time Zhang Qian visited, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrians were under the suzerainty of the Yuezhi. (23 words)
Example sentences (2)
By the time Zhang Qian visited, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrians were under the suzerainty of the Yuezhi.
During the time period from 90 BC to 30 BC, Yuezhi destroyed the last Hellenistic successor states and, together with the Tokhari, (to whom they were closely related) created a Kushan Empire around 30 AD.