- 理由【りゆう】 - reason, pretext, motive 
- 自由【じゆう】 - freedom, liberty 
- 自由に【じゆうに】 - freely, at liberty, at will, as one likes 
- 不自由【ふじゆう】 - discomfort, inconvenience, poverty, want, destitution, inability, disability, impairment (physical, mental, etc.), nonfluency (in a language) 
- 由来【ゆらい】 - origin, source, history, derivation, originally, from the start, by nature 
- 経由【けいゆ】 - going through, going via, going by way of 
- 由緒【ゆいしょ】 - history, pedigree, lineage 
- 事由【じゆう】 - reason, cause 
- 自由化【じゆうか】 - liberalization, liberalisation, freeing 
- 自由形【じゆうがた】 - freestyle (e.g. swimming event) 
- 自由主義【じゆうしゅぎ】 - liberalism 
- 自由経済【じゆうけいざい】 - free economy 
- 自由自在【じゆうじざい】 - free, unrestricted, (with) complete mastery, completely in control 
- 自由業【じゆうぎょう】 - self-employed profession (e.g. actor, artist), liberal profession 
- 肢体不自由児【したいふじゆうじ】 - physically disabled child, child with a physical disability 
- 由々しい【ゆゆしい】 - grave, serious, alarming 
- 自由労働者【じゆうろうどうしゃ】 - casual laborer (labourer), day laborer (labourer)