# yon vs yue

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### yon
*determiner · IPA /jɒn/ · frequency rank #34,757*
Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.

### yue
*noun · frequency rank #38,253*
An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/yon-vs-yue