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yu.

An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.

2 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/juː/
  1. An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.

    countable
  2. Jade, nephrite or jadeite.

    archaic · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Chinese 玉.

noun/juː/
  1. The letter Ю, ю.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Russian ю (ju).

pron/juː/
  1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

    alt-of · pronunciation-spelling
Where this word comes from

See you.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.