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Yue Chinese, an Uncommon card
Yue is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Yue Chinese quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Yue Chinese card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Most later migrants have been speakers of ______.
Answer
Cantonese. Most later migrants have been speakers of Cantonese. From the Yue Chinese article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Adana. Adana 88 · Village 82 · Freetown 79 · Yue Chinese 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term Cantonese is often used to refer to the whole branch, but linguists prefer to reserve the name Cantonese for the variety used in Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Hong Kong and Macau, which is the prestige dialect of the group.
- Taishanese, from the coastal area of Jiangmen located southwest of Guangzhou, was the language of most of the 19th-century emigrants from Guangdong to Southeast Asia and North America.
- Most later migrants have been speakers of Cantonese.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Yue Chinese article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Yue Chinese
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Yue Chinese (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : LiliCharlie, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
