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昱

yù

Character

What 昱 means

1. bright light

Example sentences

• 其鄄城、东阿、范县三处，赖荀彧、程昱二人设计相连，死守城郭。
  At Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fan counties, thanks to the strategic planning of Xun Yu and Cheng Yu, the locations were connected, and the cities were defended to the death.

Words starting with 昱

• 昱日yù rì(Taiwan) the following day
• 昱昱yù yùvariant of 煜煜

Words containing 昱

• 程昱Chéng YùCheng Yu (141-220), advisor to General Cao Cao 曹操 during the Three Kingdoms era

Characters that look like 昱

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

• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite
• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 皇huángemperor; old variant of 惶
• 垦kěnto reclaim (land); to cultivate
• 奚xī(literary) what?; where?; why?
• 罡gāngstars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper

Sounds the same

Read yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 育to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
• 遇(bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat…
• 预to advance; in advance; beforehand
• 域field; region; area
• 寓(bound form) to reside; to inhabit; (bound form) residence; dwelling…
• 欲desire; appetite; passion
• 玉jade
• 豫happy; carefree; at one's ease
• 浴bath; to bathe
• 吁to implore
• 狱prison
• 誉to praise; to acclaim; reputation