What is "yu"

Yu \Yu\, n. [Chin.] (Min.) Jade.

n. 1 (cx archaeology countable English) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover. 2 (cx archaic uncountable English) nephrite or jadeite.

is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex.

Yu (Ю ю; italics: Ю ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in East Slavic and Bulgarian alphabets.

In English, Yu is commonly romanized as . In turn, is used, where is available, in transcriptions of English letter (in open syllables), and also of the digraph. The sound [], like in French and in German, may also be approximated by the letter .

The Yu (竽; pinyin: yú) was a free reed wind instrument used in ancient China. It was similar to the sheng, with multiple bamboo pipes fixed in a wind chest which may have been made of bamboo, wood, or gourd. Each pipe contained a free reed, which was also made of bamboo. Whereas the sheng was used to provide harmony (in fourths and fifths), the yu was played melodically. The instrument was used, often in large numbers, in the court orchestras of ancient China (and also imported to Korea and Japan) but is no longer used.

ゆ, in hiragana, or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both are written in two strokes and represent .

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents not a separate sound but a modification of that of another (see yōon).

Forms

Rōmaji

Hiragana

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Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō)

yu

ゆ

ユ

yuu
yū

ゆう, ゆぅ
ゆー

ユウ, ユゥ
ユー

Yu is the pinyin romanisation of several Chinese family names. However, in the Wade–Giles romanisation system, Yu is equivalent to You in pinyin. "Yu" may represent many different Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由, 魚 (鱼), 漁, 渔, 楀, 俞, 喻, 兪, 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛, 娱, and 茹. Yu is also a common Korean family name (also romanised as Yoo or Ryu) and may represent these characters: 劉, 兪, 庾, 柳.

The most common of the Yu surnames are 于, 余, and 俞. In China, 0.62% of the population have the family name 于 in 2002 (about 7.4 million), and this surname is most common in Shandong province and northeastern China. Around 0.41% of the population have the surname 余 in 2002 (over five million), and it is most common in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The 俞 surname represents around 0.12% of China's population.

The yu (; pinyin: yǔ) was a wooden percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back comprising 27 "teeth", used since ancient times in China for Confucian court ritual music. It was played by striking its head three times with a bamboo whisk made from approximately 15 stalks of bamboo, and then scraping it across the serrated back once to mark the end of a piece of music.

The yu is mentioned along with another percussion instrument called zhu in pre- Qin Dynasty annals; it also appears in the Classic of History.

The yu was adopted by the Korean court in ancient times, where it was known as eo (hangul: ; hanja: ), and is still used in Confucian ritual music.

Yu is a 2003 Austrian drama film directed by Franz Novotny. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.

Yu is the 82nd surname mentioned in the Hundred Family Surnames. According to the 2006 census of People's Republic of China, it ranks 38th nationally. The name is transliterated as Vuu in Vietnamese but is very rare in Viet Nam.

Note that even though the literary usage of the character 於 was simplified to 于 in simplified Chinese, the surname usages of 於 was unchanged. So both are recognized as distinct surnames in both simplified and traditional Chinese.

ㅠ is one of the Korean hangul. The Unicode for ㅠ is U+3160.