yu
nounpronounnouncommon in dialogue
- //juː//
An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
noun
- 1
An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.
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archaicJade, nephrite or jadeite.
The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]
Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]
Etymology
Borrowed from Chinese 玉.
pronoun
- 1
Variant of youEye dialect spelling of you.
Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."
Etymology
See you.
noun
- 1
The letter Ю, ю.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ю (ju).
Forms
- plural
- yus
yu · An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
Yu · Synonym of You; A surname from Mandarin.yuan · The basic unit of money in China.Yuan · The Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368.