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yu | u |

As a letter u is

the letter u with an acute accent.

yu

English

(wikipedia yu)

Noun

  • 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.
  • 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
    English two-letter words ----

    u

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-first letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "u")

    Etymology 2

    Symbol

    (head)
  • symbol for unified atomic mass unit
  • ).
  • (label) up quark

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }} Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur ----