Yick Yu was a student who attended Degrassi Junior High School from Fall 1987 to June 1989 and later on Degrassi High School from Fall 1989 to June 1991. Yick was a poor young boy who came with his family to live in Canada after his family escaped after the Vietnam War. He wasn't a very happy and confident person at first, but gradually he made good friends and gained more confidence. He was best friends with Arthur Kobalewscuy. He was portrayed by Siluck Saysanasy.
Degrassi Junior High (Season 1-3)[]
Yick was a student at Degrassi from grade 7 to grade 10. He was best friends
with Arthur Kobalewsky. He believed that Mr. Raditch was prejudiced against him, but he soon found out that he had no issue with him. He had an issue with Arthur being rich when they were in their grade 8 year. He wanted to go out with Melanie Brodie, but she wanted to go out with Archie Simpson instead. Their friendship ended when Yick discovered Melanie had lied to him and gone to the 'boy' movie rather than a 'girl' movie.
Degrassi High (Season 4-5)[]
In high school, he started occasionally skipping classes and he began smoking cigarettes and hanging out a lot with Luke Matthews and was getting more involved into playing school sports. His friendship with Arthur at first was becoming somewhat distant and detached and he began hanging out a lot more with teammates such as Alex Yankou. He eventually became acquainted with Arthur again in the episode All in a Good Cause when he and Arthur decided to go through with a daring bet to be dared to go and toilet paper Mr. Raditch's house to raise money from schoolmates to win the class UNICEF contest, though they were both caught by Mr. Raditch and told to clean up the next day. He and Arthur became best friends again in The All Nighter when they had decided to play a poker game at Luke Matthews' house all night long with Joey Jeremiah, Arthur and Luke. That night during their game Yick revealed that he had a slight attraction for Maya Goldberg and thought that she was pretty and has a very nice look. He was fully unaware that at Diana Economopoulos' overnight birthday slumber party that Maya was also saying that she had some feeling for him too, both of them never knew or found out how they felt about each other. Tessa Campanelli dumped Alex Yankou to go out with him as well. They stayed together when Degrassi was closed but broke up during the summer before their grade 11 year.
Degrassi: The Next Generation[]
Yick returns to Degrassi in 2001, to be a part of the reunion of all Degrassi students, when the school reopened. Yick also made a brief return (about half a second) in the season 2 opener in When Doves Cry (1) he is seen at Spike's birthday party cooking and shaking hands with Joey, an old friend.
Influences on Next Generation[]
- Spinner Mason went to Degrassi from 2001-2007 was jealous of his best friend Jimmy Brooks because of his wealth, just like Yick was jealous when Arthur Kobalewscuy became suddenly rich.
- Derek Haig, went to Degrassi 2005 - 2009, was picked on by Mr. Perino just like Yick was picked on by Mr. Raditch.
- The friendship between Yick and Arthur was similar to that of J.T. Yorke and Toby Isaacs.
Appearances[]
Degrassi Junior High (Season 1)
- Kiss Me, Steph
- The Big Dance No Lines
- The Experiment
- The Great Race
- Rumor Has It
- Best Laid Plans
- Nothing to Fear
- Smokescreen
- It's Late
- Revolution!
Degrassi Junior High (Season 2)
- Eggbert
- A Helping Hand... No Lines
- Great Expectations
- Dinner & a Show
- Stage Fright No Lines
- Fight!
- Bottled Up
- Sealed With a Kiss No Lines
- Dog Days
- Censored No Lines
- Trust Me No Lines
- ...He's Back No Lines
- Pass Tense
Degrassi Junior High (Season 3)
- Can't Live With 'Em (1)
- Can't Live With 'Em (2)
- A Big Girl Now No Lines
- Season's Greetings
- Loves Me, Loves Me Not
- He Ain't Heavy...
- The Whole Truth No Lines
- Star-Crossed
- Food for Thought No Lines
- Twenty Bucks No Lines
- Taking Off (1) No Lines
- Taking Off (2) No Lines
- Making Whoopee
- Black & White
- Pa-arty! No Lines
- Bye-Bye, Junior High
- A New Start (1)
- A New Start (2)
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do No Lines
- Dream On
- Nobody's Perfect No Lines
- Just Friends No Lines
- Little White Lies
- Sixteen (1) No Lines
- Sixteen (2) No Lines
- All in a Good Cause
- Natural Attraction No Lines
- Testing One, Two, Three...
- It Creeps!! No Lines
- Stressed Out
- Bad Blood (1) No Lines
- Bad Blood (2) No Lines
- Loyalties No Lines
- A Tangled Web No Lines
- Body Politics No Lines
- Crossed Wires
- The All Nighter
- Extracurricular Activities No Lines
- Showtime (1)
- Showtime (2)
- Three's a Crowd
- One Last Dance No Lines
Degrassi: the Next Generation
Season 1
- Mother and Child Reunion (2) No Lines
- When Doves Cry (1) No Lines
Trivia[]
- Lucy and Yick were the first exchange students to attend Degrassi.
- Yick is the first non-white male student in the franchise before B.L.T., Scooter, Paul, Bronco, Jimmy, Chris, Danny, Damian, Sav, Connor, Dave, Zane, Dallas, Winston, Fab, Tiny, Vijay, Baaz, and Saad.
- He is one of the few characters to have alliteration names, the others are Joey Jeremiah, Mo Mashkour, Becky Baker, Maya Matlin, and Hunter Hollingsworth.
- He is seen in a movie poster for "Elimination Round 3" in the season 3 episode Donāt Dream Itās Over, but is credited on the poster as Siluck Saysanasy (the actor's name).
- He is one of several students who were born outside of Toronto.
- He is from Laos.
- Wheels was most likely born near Port Hope, ON.
- Lucy Fernandez is from New York, NY.
- Liz O'Rourke was most likely born in Lynden, ON.
- Patrick is from Dublin, Ireland.
- Manny Santos was born in Manila, the Philippines.
- Hazel Aden was born in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Fiona and Declan Coyne were born in Tokyo, Japan to American expatriates.
- Jenna Middleton was born in Calgary, AB.
- Mike Dallas is from Guelph, ON.
- Campbell Saunders is from Kapuskasing, ON.
- Becky and Luke Baker are from somewhere in Florida.
- Rasha Zuabi, Saad and Abra Al'Maliki are from Syria.
- He is the first main character that is a refugee. The other four are Hazel Aden, Rasha Zuabi, Saad Al'Maliki, and Abra Al'Maliki.
- In Dog Days, he mentioned that he got detention regularly.
- In a deleted scene from Mother and Child Reunion (2), Yick mentioned that he and Arthur were still friends and had set up a web design company together.
- In The All Nighter, Yick mentioned that she had a crush on Maya Goldberg. He did not realize that Maya felt the same way about him.
- In School's Out!, he attended Alexa Pappadopolos and Simon Dexter's wedding on October 19, 1992.
- In Three's a Crowd, Tessa described him as "wild and unpredictable."
- Yick shares similarities with TNG character J.T. Yorke.
Relationships[]
Main article: Yick-Tessa Relationship
- Start Up: One Last Dance (DH 213)
- Break Up: Before School's Out! (TV Movie)
- Reason: Unexplained
Interaction[]
Friendships | Relationships | Conflicts | Attractions | Love Triangles |
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Arthur-Yick Friendship | Yick-Tessa Relationship | Yick-Melanie Attraction | ||
Yick-Maya Attraction |
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Alex ā¢ Alexa ā¢ Allison ā¢ Amy ā¢ Archie ā¢ Arthur ā¢ B.L.T. ā¢ Bartholomew ā¢ Caitlin ā¢ Christine ā¢ Raditch ā¢ Wheels ā¢ Erica ā¢ Heather ā¢ Joey ā¢ Karen ā¢ Kathleen ā¢ L.D. ā¢ Liz ā¢ Lucy ā¢ Maya ā¢ Melanie ā¢ Michelle ā¢ Rick ā¢ Scooter ā¢ Shane ā¢ Simon ā¢ Stephanie ā¢ Susie ā¢ Voula ā¢ Yick |
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Alex ā¢ Alexa ā¢ Allison ā¢ Amy ā¢ Archie ā¢ Arthur ā¢ B.L.T. ā¢ Bartholomew ā¢ Bronco ā¢ Caitlin ā¢ Christine ā¢ Claude ā¢ Diana ā¢ Dwayne ā¢ Erica ā¢ Heather ā¢ Joey ā¢ Karen ā¢ Kathleen ā¢ L.D. ā¢ Liz ā¢ Lucy ā¢ Maya ā¢ Melanie ā¢ Michelle ā¢ Raditch ā¢ Scooter ā¢ Simon ā¢ Tessa ā¢ Wheels ā¢ Yick |