yu
Word-form referencesyou
Pronunciations
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/juː/
Noun
An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
Usage- Countable
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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.
Jade, nephrite or jadeite.
Usage- Archaic
- Uncountable
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The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]
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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 […]
Noun
The letter Ю, ю.
Word forms
yus