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  • As John Emerson points out, 'you' is one of the most common grammatical words in classical or even simply literary Chinese, just like 'ru' 如, ruo' 若, etc. personally, that is the first meaning I think of when I see the character, before the monkey or the first part of the common verb youyu 犹豫.

    languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

  • We ate sheets of fried squid, youyu, and then go to the fruit-juice stall.

    Yannone 2008

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