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予

yǔ

HSK 6 Character

What 予 means

1. literaryto give

Other readings

予 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yúI; me

Example sentences

• 不予置评。
  No comment.
• 他赋予价值。
  He gave it value.
• 赋予自己价值。
  Give yourself value.
• 我对她寄予厚望。
  Wǒ duì tā jìyǔhòuwàng.
  I have high hopes for her.
• 灵魂赋予肉体生命。
  Línghún fùyǔ ròutǐ shēngmìng.
  The soul animates the body.
• 他曾经被授予金牌。
  Tā céngjīng bèi shòuyǔ jīnpái.
  He's been awarded a gold medal once.

Words starting with 予

• 予以yǔ yǐto give; to impose; to apply
• 予人口实yǔ rén kǒu shíto give cause for gossip

Words containing 予

• 给予jǐ yǔ(literary) to give; to accord; to render
• 赋予fù yǔto assign; to entrust (a task); to give
• 授予shòu yǔto award; to confer
• 赐予cì yǔto grant; to bestow
• 寄予jì yǔto place (hope, importance etc) on; to express; to show; to give
• 准予zhǔn yǔto grant; to approve; to permit
• 不予理会bù yǔ lǐ huìto ignore; to brush off; to dismiss
• 不予置评bù yǔ zhì píngto make no comment; "no comment"
• 不予评论bù yǔ píng lùnNo comment!
• 生杀予夺shēng shā yǔ duó(lit.) to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom)…
• 酌予zhuó yǔto give as one sees fit
• 寄予厚望jì yǔ hòu wàngto place high hopes
• 赠予zèng yǔto give a present; to accord (a favor); to grant
• 宰予Zǎi YúZai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
• 欧阳予倩Ōu yáng Yú qiànOuyang Yuqian (1889-1962), Chinese actor
• 施予shī yǔvariant of 施与
• 欲取姑予yù qǔ gū yǔvariant of 欲取姑与

Characters that look like 予

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 乎hū(classical particle similar to 于; at; from
• 千qiānthousand

Sounds the same

Read yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 与(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with…
• 语dialect; language; speech
• 雨rain
• 羽feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale
• 屿islet
• 宇room; universe
• 禹Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods; surname Yu
• 瑀(chalcedony)
• 圄prison; to imprison
• 敔percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the…
• 俣big
• 龉used in 龃龉