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You

pronounproper nountop 100 in film dialogue

A surname from Chinese

pronoun

  1. 1

    Variant of youHonorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Etymology

Capitalization of you.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese

  2. 2

    historicalA former prefecture of China.

  3. 3

    Synonym of Youzhou, one of the Nine Provinces of Chinese legend.

Etymology

From irregular, Wade–Giles, and Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of various Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由 (yóu), 魚 /鱼 (yú) / 鱼 (yú), 漁 /渔 (yú), 渔 (yú), 楀 (yǔ), 俞, 喻, 兪, 於 /于, 遇 (yù), 虞 (yú), 郁 (yù), 尉, 禹 (yǔ), 游 (yóu), 尤 (yóu), 庾 (yǔ), 娛 /娱, 娱, 茹, 幽 (Yōu).

Forms

plural
Yous
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).