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Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर)
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर), Dharmaraja, eldest Pandava son of the god Dharma in the Mahabharata; lost kingdom, brothers, and Draupadi in Shakuni's dice game, endured exile, the Yaksha Prashna, and ruled after Kurukshetra.
Yudhra (युध्रा)
Yudhra (युध्रा) is a 2024 Hindi action thriller directed by Ravi Udyawar for Excel Entertainment, starring Siddhant Chaturvedi as an angry young man infiltrating a drug cartel; released 20 September 2024, later on Prime Video.
Yudi jisheng
Yudi jisheng (舆地纪胜) is a Southern Song geographic gazetteer of about 200 juan compiled by Wang Xiangzhi of Jinhua, completed around 1227, covering 166 prefectural units of the empire.
YuE
YuE is an open-weights lyrics-to-song model family from the M-A-P research collective and HKUST, released in January 2025 and described as the first open-source model generating full songs with vocals and accompaniment.
Yue Chinese
Yue Chinese (粤语), also called Cantonese, is a Sinitic variety group of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau with 70–86 million speakers, Guangzhou speech as prestige variety, 53 finals and six or nine tones, mutually unintelligible with Mandarin.
Yue destroys Wu
Yue destroys Wu (越灭吴) was the conquest of the state of Wu by its southern neighbor Yue at the end of the Spring and Autumn period, around 473 BC.
Yue Fei
Yue Fei (岳飛, 1103–1142), Southern Song general against the Jurchen Jin, executed in 1141/1142 on fabricated treason charges tied to Qin Hui and the peace faction; later rehabilitated and venerated as China's archetypal loyal martyr.
Yue Fei's Army
Yue Fei's Army (岳家军), the Yue Family Army, was the field army of Southern Song general Yue Fei, based on the middle Yangtze in the 1130s.
Yue Fei's unjust case
Yue Fei's unjust case (岳飞冤狱) was the 1142 trial and execution of the Song general Yue Fei, widely regarded as a frame-up instigated by Qin Hui.
Yue Ji
Yue Ji (乐记, "Record of Music") is a chapter of the Book of Rites setting out the Confucian theory of music, and is regarded as the first complete treatise on music aesthetics in China.
Yue Jin
Yue Jin (乐进) was a general under Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty, known for being first to scale city walls and for holding Hefei.
Yue Lihua
Yue Lihua (岳立华, born 1973) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Hunan who founded the Furong Xingsheng convenience-store chain and, from it, the community group-buying platform Xingsheng Youxuan.
Yue Qi
Yue Qi is a computational materials scientist who models battery interfaces and has been the Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University since 2020.
Yue Wanggoujian
Yue Wanggoujian (越王勾践), known as Goujian, King of Yue, ruled Yue from about 496 to 465 BC and destroyed the rival state of Wu in 473 BC.
Yue Wu
Yue Wu is a chemical engineer and Herbert L. Stiles Professor at Iowa State University with a joint appointment at Ames National Laboratory, known for MXene catalysis and thermoelectric materials.
Yue Xianyang
Yue Xianyang (乐显扬) was a Qing dynasty imperial physician in Beijing who founded the Tongrentang medicine room in 1669, a pharmacy brand over 300 years old.
Yue Xiong
Yue Xiong is a Chinese-born biochemist and cancer researcher known for discovering p21, defining D-type cyclins, and showing 2-hydroxyglutarate acts as an oncometabolite in IDH-mutant tumors.
Yue Yang's conquest of Zhongshan
Yue Yang's conquest of Zhongshan (乐羊伐中山) was an early Warring States campaign in which Wei's general Yue Yang conquered the state of Zhongshan for Marquis Wen of Wei.
Yue Yi
Yue Yi (乐毅) was a Warring States general who led Yan's five-state coalition that conquered most of Qi in 284 BC, later dying in exile in Zhao.
Yue Yi's campaign against Qi
Yue Yi's campaign against Qi (乐毅伐齐) was the 284 BC invasion of Qi by a coalition led by Yue Yi of Yan, which captured the capital Linzi.
Yue Yi's coalition army
Yue Yi's coalition army (乐毅伐齐联军) was a five-state coalition of the Warring States period that Yue Yi led against Qi, conquering over seventy cities in five years.
Yue Yun
Yue Yun (岳云) was a Song dynasty military officer who fought in his father Yue Fei's armies from age twelve, wielding two iron hammers, and was executed alongside him.
Yue Zhao
Yue Zhao, born in 1961, is a polymer and liquid crystal chemist and full professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, known for light-driven soft actuators.
Yue Zhongqi
Yue Zhongqi (岳钟琪, 1686–1754) was a Qing dynasty general who crushed the Mongol rebellion in Qinghai, governed Sichuan and Shaanxi, and served three emperors, the only Han Chinese to command Manchu troops.
Yue-Kong Pao
Yue-Kong Pao (Pao Yue-kong, 包玉刚) was a Hong Kong shipping magnate who founded World-Wide Shipping in 1955, built the world's largest merchant fleet, and moved into property through Kowloon Wharf and Wheelock.
Yuebi Decoction
越婢汤 (Yuebi Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue, combines ephedra, gypsum, ginger, licorice, and jujube to release the exterior and drain water, chiefly for wind-water edema (风水证) and modern nephritis and edema conditions.
Yuebing Zheng
Yuebing Zheng is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin, known for opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers that trap nanoparticles with light.
Yuefenpai
Yuefenpai (月份牌), the calendar poster, is a Chinese commercial advertising poster combining a printed picture with a calendar, which originated in late 19th-century Shanghai and flourished there from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Yuefu poetry
Yuefu poetry (乐府诗, "Music Bureau poems") is a Chinese poetic genre named after the Han dynasty Music Bureau, running from Han folk song through Six Dynasties imitation to the Tang new yuefu.
Yuefu Yaci
Yuefu Yaci (乐府雅词) is a Song-dynasty anthology of ci lyrics compiled by Zeng Zao and completed in 1146, the earliest surviving anthology of Song lyrics.