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敔

yǔ

Character

What 敔 means

1. percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick

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
• 予(literary) to give
• 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
• 俣big
• 龉used in 龃龉

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