豫

Mandarin · pinyin yù#

Meanings · yù

  1. happy
  2. carefree
  3. at one's ease
  4. variant of 預 yù
  5. old variant of 與 yù
Mandarin · pinyin Yù#

Meanings · Yù

  1. short name for Henan 河南 Hé nán
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豫
yù · relaxed, comfortable, at ease; hexagram ䷏
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  1. used in 猶豫/犹豫 (yóuyù)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) relaxed; comfortable; at ease
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) content and happy
  4. 16th hexagram of the I Ching
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 河南 (Hénán)
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 預 /预 (“to prevent, to take precautions”)
  7. (archaic) to speculate (to profit from artificially inflated prices); to manipulate the market; to engage in price gouging

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豫 · yu4 · Yu4
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source lines 102,914, 102,913
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Exact source records豫 豫 [yu4] /happy/carefree/at one's ease/variant of 預|预[yu4]/old variant of 與|与[yu4]/豫 豫 [Yu4] /short name for Henan 河南[He2 nan2]/