English

Noun

yu ‎(countable and uncountable, plural yu)

1. (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
   • 1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes (page 34)

     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.

2. (archaic, uncountable) Nephrite or jadeite.
   • 1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133:

     The Yu, 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 celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]

Etymology 2

See you.

Pronoun

yu

1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

Ama

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju/

Noun

yu

1. mountain, hill

Bislama

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu

1. you: second person singular pronoun

Duna

Noun

yu

1. water

References

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

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu

1. (singular) you

Usage notes

• Jamaican Creole marks a distinction between singular yu and plural unu

Japanese

Romanization

yu

1. rōmaji reading of ゆ
2. rōmaji reading of ユ

Kamula

Noun

yu

1. water

References

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

Malalamai

Noun

yu

1. water

References

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (1988)

Malay

Etymology

From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *hiu (compare Javanese hiyu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu (compare Fijian qio), from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

Alternative forms

• hiu / هيو

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iu/
• Rhymes: -iu, -ju, -u

Noun

yu ‎(Jawi spelling يو)

1. shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

Mandarin

Romanization

yu

1. Nonstandard spelling of yū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yù.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Noun

yu ‎(using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) nose

References

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

Miskito

Noun

yu

1. sun
2. day

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu

1. you

Pijin

Pronoun

yu

1. Alternative form of iu

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English you.

Adjective

yu

1. your

Pronoun

yu

1. you

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu ‎(personal)

1. you (singular)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 2:16 (translation here):

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

See also

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu ‎(personal)

1. you (singular)

See also

• yutu
• yupla

Unami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ju]

Pronoun

yu

1. this (inanimate)

Waskia

Noun

yu

1. water
2. river

References

• Waskia dictionary (SIL)

Zarma

Noun

yu

1. honey

References

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