Gǔ wénxiàn lǐ, yú shì jūnzhǔ biǎoshì yīngyǔn de huà.
In old documents, 'yu' is the ruler's word for granting assent.
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history
As a word of assent, 俞 survives only in classical quotations such as the dialogues in the 尚书 (Book of Documents). It is no longer used this way in modern speech.
culture
With a capital reading it is also a common surname (as in the physician 俞 family names). The classical assent sense and the surname share the same syllable and tone.
