瑜伽

yú jiā · HSK 4

yoga

🧘 瑜伽 = jade-beauty + together; sounds like 'yoga'

瑜 means fine jade, 伽 is a phonetic syllable used in Buddhist loanwords. Together 瑜伽 is a Sanskrit transliteration of 'yoga' — the Mandarin yú jiā closely echoes the original word.

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