• IPA^(key):/juː/
• Rhymes:-uː
• Homophones:you,yew,ewe

FromChinese玉(yù).

yu (countable anduncountable,pluralyu)

1. (archaeology,countable) An ancient Chinesewine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
   • 1962, William Watson,Ancient Chinese Bronzes, page34:

     A group of slendereryu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design[…] Ayu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.

2. (archaic,uncountable)Jade,nephrite orjadeite.
   • 1818, Clarke Abel,Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page133:

     TheYu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms[…]

   • 1826,The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies:

     Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebratedyu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite[…]

Seeyou.

yu

1. Eye dialect spelling ofyou.

FromRussianю(ju).

yu (pluralyus)

1. The letterЮ,ю.

• Uy

• IPA^(key):/ju/

yu

1. mountain,hill

yu

1. Alternative form ofyuw

• Loanwords in Takia, inLoanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

FromEnglishyou.

yu

1. you(second-person singular pronoun)

yu

1. your(second-person singular possessive pronoun)

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007),Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 379.

FromEnglishyou. Cognate withTok Pisinyu.

• IPA^(key):/ˈju/
• Hyphenation:yu

yu

1. thou,you(singular)

• Terry Crowley (2004)Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press,→ISBN, page46

yu

1. Alternative spelling ofyou(“2nd person singular subject and object personal pronoun”)

yu

1. water

• Transnewguinea.org, citing Shaw (1973) (seePacific Linguistics, edited by Karl James Franklin, 1973)

yu (pluralyu-yu)

1. oldersister

yu

1. Alternative spelling ofyuh

yu

1. Thehiragana syllableゆ(yu) or thekatakana syllableユ(yu) inHepburn romanization.

FromVietnamesedù.

yu (classifierpŏk)

1. parachute

yu

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing G. ReesinkLanguages of the Aramia River Area (1976),Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
• Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, inPapers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)

yu

1. water

• Malcolm Ross,Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia,Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

• hiu(obsolete in Malay, standard in Indonesian)

Fromhiu, fromProto-Malayic*hiu(ʔ), fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*qihu, fromProto-Austronesian*qiSu.

• IPA^(key):/ˈju/ [ˈju]
• Rhymes:-u
• Hyphenation:yu

yu (Jawi spellingيو,pluralyu-yu)

1. Ashark(scaleless cartilaginous fish).

   Synonym:jerung

   Ikanyu ialah seekor haiwan akuatik yang sangat kuat gigitannya.

   Theshark is an aquatic animal whose bites are very strong.

• “yu” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

yu

1. Nonstandard spelling ofyū.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofyú.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofyǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling ofyù.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

yu(Raguileo spelling)

1. (anatomy)nose

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

yu

1. (chiefly Northern)Alternative form ofyow

yu

1. sun
2. day

FromEnglishyou.

yu

1. you

• yiu(alternative spelling)

Comes from Old Papiamentu "joego", fromSpanishhijo. Compare and Kabuverdianufidju "child" (ac Jacobs).

yu

1. child (of parents)

yu

1. Alternative form ofiu

FromProto-Nuristani*ko < earlier*kawa. CompareAshkunkëvā,Kamkata-virikavo,këvo,Waigalikavā.

• IPA^(key):/ju/ (tone class A)

yu(Pronz)^[1]

1. basket

• i

FromEnglishyou.

• IPA^(key):/ju/
• IPA^(key):/i/

yu

1. your

yu

1. you

• Aukan:yu
• >? Maroon Spirit Language:i
• Saramaccan:yu

yu

1. (dated orliterary)positive degreepresent andgnomicthird-personsingularm class_(I) of-wa(“he/she is”)
   • (Can wedate this quote?), “Umechoka Umesumbuka”:

     Mwambie Yesu sumbuko lako,yu rafiki amini

     Tell Jesus your trouble; [he]is a friend, trust it

Borrowed fromEnglishu, the English name of the letterU/u.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ju/[jʊ]
• Rhymes:-u
• Syllabification:yu
• Homophone:Yu

yu (Baybayin spellingᜌᜓ)

1. the name of theLatin-script letterU/u, in theFilipino alphabet

   Synonym:(in the Abakada alphabet and the Abecedario)u

• (Latin-script letter names)titik;ey,bi,si,di,i,ef,dyi,eyts,ay,dyey,key,el,em,en,enye,en dyi,o,pi,kyu,ar,es,ti,yu,vi,dobolyu,eks,way,zi

• “yu”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

• uy,Uy

yu

1. he

FromEnglishyou.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)
   • 1989,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis2:16:

     Na God i tokim man olsem, “Yu ken kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong dispela gaden.

     →New International Version translation

FromEnglishyou.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)

• yutu
• yupla

• yun

• IPA^(key):[ju]

yu

1. this(inanimate)

yu

1. water
2. river

• Waskia dictionary (SIL)

• yún
• jú(Ào)
• hú(Eastern Àkókó)

• IPA^(key):/jú/

yú

1. (Ekiti,Idanre,Ondo,Ọwọ,Ikalẹ, Usẹn) togo

   Synonyms:lọ,rè

   Me èyú ―I will notgo (Èkìtì)

   Ùwọ óyú ín. ―It was you whowent. (Ìkálẹ̀)

• yúbẹ̀(“to go there”)

yu

1. they

• neʔ

yu

1. honey

• David Bellama,Cours de Zarma pour le Niger: trainee's book (1976)