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Mandarin · pinyin yù

(Chinese mythology) creature that lives underwater and spits sand to make people ill

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蜮: yù · a fabulous creature like a turtle; a toad

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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(Chinese mythology) a small three-legged turtle-like creature that lives in water and spits sand at humans, often forcefully enough to kill them.
pestilent insect that eats young leaves

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