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虞

yú

Character

What 虞 means

1. literaryto expect; to anticipate
2. literaryto be concerned about; to be apprehensive
3. literaryto deceive; to dupe

Other readings

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

• Yúsurname Yu

Words starting with 虞

• 虞喜Yú XǐYu Xi, Chinese astronomer (c. 270-345), known for discovering the earth's precession
• 虞翻Yú FānYu Fan (164–233), Eastern Wu scholar, official, and commentator on the I Ching
• 虞世南Yú Shì nánYu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one…
• 虞城县Yú chéng XiànYucheng, a county in Shangqiu City 商丘市
• 虞应龙Yú Yìng lóngYu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan…
• 虞舜Yú ShùnYu Shun, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝
• 虞城Yú chéngsee 虞城县

Words containing 虞

• 尔虞我诈ěr yú wǒ zhàlit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other…
• 不虞bù yúunexpected; eventuality; contingency
• 堪虞kān yúworrisome; precarious; to be at risk
• 无虞wú yúnot to be worried about; all taken care of
• 上虞区Shàng yú QūShangyu, a district of Shaoxing City 绍兴市
• 不虞匮乏bù yú kuì fáto have ample supplies (or money etc)
• 安全无虞ān quán wú yúsafe and secure
• 衣食无虞yī shí wú yúnot having to worry about food and clothes (idiom); provided with the basic necessities
• 驺虞zōu yúzouyu (mythical animal); official in charge of park animals…
• 上虞Shàng yúsee 上虞区
• 无虞匮乏wú yú kuì fásee 不虞匮乏

Characters built on 吴

These share the phonetic component 吴 (Wú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 误wùmistake; error; to miss
• 娱yúto amuse
• 蜈wúused in 蜈蚣
• 俣yǔbig

Characters that look like 虞

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

• 塞sè(bound form) to block; to obstruct
• 富fùrich; abundant; wealthy
• 廉liánincorruptible; honest; inexpensive
• 詹zhān(literary) verbose; (literary) to arrive, to reach
• 寞mòlonesome
• 熏xūnto smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils

Sounds the same

Read yú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 于to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 鱼fish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
• 余(literary) I; me; variant of 余
• 愉pleased
• 娱to amuse
• 渔fisherman; to fish
• 愚to be stupid; to cheat or deceive; me or I (modest)
• 舆(literary) chassis of a carriage…
• 逾to exceed; to go beyond; to transcend
• 渝(literary) (of faith, affection etc) to change; to waver (usu. in 不渝
• 予(archaic) I; me
• 瑜excellence; luster of gems