| yāo | weigh |
| yuē | appointment/agreement/to arrange/to restrict/approximately |
| 约 | to weigh in a balance or on a scale |
| 约书亚 | Joshua (name) |
| 约书亚记 | Book of Joshua |
| 约会 | appointment engagement date |
| 约会对象 | a partner for dating a date (i.e. a boyfriend or girlfriend) |
| 约会强暴 | date rape |
| 约伯 | Job (name) Book of Job in the Old Testament |
| 约伯记 | Book of Job (in the Old Testament) |
| 约但 | variant of 約旦|约旦, Jordan |
| 约但河 | variant of 約旦河|约旦河, Jordan river |
| 约克 | York |
| 约克夏猪 | Yorkshire swine; Yorkshire pig; Yorkshire hog |
| 约克敦 | Yorktown |
| 约克郡 | Yorkshire (English region) |
| 约出 | to ask sb out (on a date etc) |
| 约分 | reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths) to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator |
| 约制 | to bind to restrict to constrain |
| 约化 | [Mathematics] reduction |
| 约去 | [Mathematics] to cancel out |
| 约合 | approximately about (some numerical value) |