玉 yù
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yù
adjective
precious
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 珍贵 (Guoyu '玉' adj 3) -
yù
noun
jade; a precious stone; a gem
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geology , Concept: Gemstone 宝石
Notes: (ABC 'yù' 1; Guoyu '玉' n 1; Kroll 2015 '玉' 1; NCCED '玉' 1; Unihan '玉') -
yù
noun
Kangxi radical 96
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '玉' n 2) -
yù
adjective
fair; beautiful
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'yù' 2; Guoyu '玉' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '玉' 1a; NCCED '玉' 2) -
yù
adjective
your
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A respectful term (ABC 'yù' 3; Guoyu '玉' adj 4; Kroll 2015 '玉' 1b; NCCED '玉' 3) -
yù
adjective
pure white
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '玉' 2) -
yù
verb
to groom
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '玉' v)
Contained in
- 玉衡 epsilon Ursae Majoris
- 玉音 (deferential) your letter
- 玉头姬鹟(玉頭姬鶲) sapphire flycatcher (Ficedula sapphira)
- 珉玉杂淆(珉玉雜淆) scholars of various talents
- 玉肌 flesh of a beautiful woman
- 玉兰(玉蘭) Yulan magnolia
- 玉律金科 a perfect written law; a law that cannot be changed
- 玉夫座 Sculptor
- 仙姿玉色 heavenly beauty, jewel colors; unusually beautiful lady
- 嘉玉 ceremonial jade
- 玉英 fine jade ; a beautiful flower ; saliva
- 琼浆玉液(瓊漿玉液) bejeweled nectar; ambrosia of the immortals; superb liquor; top quality wine
- 玉泉营(玉泉營) Yuquanying
- 玉液 jade ambrosia
- 亭亭玉立 slender and elegant (of a woman)
- 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全(寧為玉碎，不為瓦全) Better broken jade than intact tile.; Death is preferable to dishonor.
- 美玉 fine jade
- 玉米淀粉(玉米澱粉) corn starch
- 他山之石可以攻玉 the other mountain's stone can polish jade; to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
- 玉米笋(玉米筍) baby corn
- 老玉米 corn
- 和田玉 nephrite
- 玉米饼(玉米餅) corn cake; Mexican tortilla
- 玉照 as sparkling and translucent as jade ; a photograph
- 援玉枹 they grasp their jade drum-sticks
- 刚玉(剛玉) corundum
- 红玉髓(紅玉髓) cornelian (mineral)
- 兰摧玉折(蘭摧玉折) premature death of a budding talent; those whom the Gods love die young
- 鼎铛玉石(鼎鐺玉石) to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone; a waste of precious material
- 玉缄(玉緘) your honorable favor
- 玉皇上帝 Jade Emperor
- 碧玉 jasper; fine jade
- 玉皇大帝 Jade Emperor
- 金枝玉叶(金枝玉葉) golden branch, jade leaves; blue-blooded nobility, especially imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
- 玉树州(玉樹州) Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture
Also contained in
石玉昆 、 玉泉区 、 杨玉环 、 玉屏县 、 宋玉 、 玉器 、 玉门关 、 玉里 、 霍小玉传 、 墨玉 、 玉皇顶 、 汤玉麟 、 玉林市 、 林黛玉 、 玉州 、 玉里镇
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《玉部》 Yù Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 239
- 卷二百七十三 列傳第一百六十一 左良玉 高傑 祖寬 Volume 273 Biographies 161: Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie, Zu Kuan History of Ming 明史 — count: 165
- 第二回 Chapter 3 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 84
- 卷六十六 志第四十二 輿服二 Volume 66 Treatises 42: Carriages and Clothing 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 72
- 第二回 Chapter 82 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 69
- 第四十八回 Chapter 48 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 61
- 卷二十三 志第三: 禮儀三 Volume 23 Treatises 3: Rites 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 57
- 卷五 中山經 Chapter 5: Classic of the Mountains - Central Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 54
- 卷一百十四 志第六十七 禮十七 Volume 114 Treatises 67: Rites 17 History of Song 宋史 — count: 53
- 卷12 志第7 禮儀七 Volume 12 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 53
Collocations
- 子玉 (子玉) 子玉請殺之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 27
- 佩玉 (佩玉) 佩玉之儺 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧竹竿 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Zhu Gan — count: 15
- 玉帛 (玉帛) 犧牲玉帛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 12
- 玉曰 (玉曰) 故使止子玉曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 8
- 执玉 (執玉) 執玉而沈曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 7
- 玉使 (玉使) 子玉使伯棼請戰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
- 赤玉 (赤玉) 赤玉做的珮飾 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧木瓜 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mu Gua — count: 4
- 玄玉 (玄玉) 服玄玉 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 4
- 用玉 (用玉) 用玉氣也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《郊特牲》 The Single Victim at the Border Sacrifices — count: 4
- 玉瓒 (玉瓚) 瑟彼玉瓚 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧旱麓 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Han Lu — count: 3