yü

Noun. yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu) (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover. quotations ▼ (archaic, uncountable) Jade, nephrite or jadeite.

British Dictionary definitions for YU (2 of 2) YU. abbreviation for. (formerly) Yugoslavia.

Yu (Chinese: 余; pinyin: Yú) is one of the Chinese family names. It is listed as the 90th surname in the "Hundred Family Surnames".

The u sound in Mandarin's “yu” is not pronounced like the u in English, nor like the u in Spanish. It is pronounced as it is in Cantonese or French, a pursed lip ee sound as in the Cantonese word for pig or book (jyu or syu) or vu/tu/su in French.

A Study on “玉” (Yu) in Chinese Idioms.

ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ].

Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese form of the surname 余 (or rarely written as 餘) meaning 'I' in ancient Chinese: (i) from the second element of the personal name You Yu (由余) the name of a prime minister in the state of Qin during the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC ).

Yū can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: 優, "tenderness" or "superiority" 夕, "evening"

Pronunciation. Sometimes, it is referred to as "Iotated O" because it is a so-called iotated vowel, pronounced in isolation as /ju/, like the pronunciation of ⟨u⟩ in "human". After a consonant, no distinct [j] sound is pronounced, but the consonant is softened.

The English term "jade" is used to translate the Chinese word yu, which in fact refers to a number of minerals including nephrite, jadeite, serpentine and bowenite, while jade refers only to nephrite and jadeite.

Genki✨ on X: "The symbols ⭕️ and ❌ in Japanese culture are "Maru" and "Batsu". ⭕️means "correct"/"Yes"/"OK" ❌means "wrong"/"No"/"Not Good" So when PS swapped these for the Japanese PS5 to match the west it was a confusion and a big "screw you" to Japan as the symbols originated from there.

In Japanese, the word "yu" (湯) can have several different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. It can mean "hot water," "hot spring," or "bath." It is often used as part of the name of a bathhouse or hot spring resort, for example, "onsen yu" (温泉湯) or "sento yu" (銭湯).