Yu - What does it mean?
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An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
* 1962 , William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes (page 34)
Nephrite or jadeite.
* 1818 , Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China , page 133:
* 1826 , The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies :
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English
(wikipedia yu)Noun
- 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.
- The Yu , although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms
- 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