Hu
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HU or Hu may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Hu Sanniang, a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature
- Tian Hu, one of the antagonists in the Water Margin
- Hollywood Undead, an American rap rock band
Language
- Hu (digraph), used primarily in Classical Nahuatl
- Fu (kana), also romanised as Hu, Japanese kana ふ and フ
- Hu language, of Yunnan, China
- Hungarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code 'hu')
Mythology and religion
- Hu (mythology), the deification of the first word in the Egyptian mythology of the Ennead
- Huh (god), the deification of eternity in the Egyptian mythology of the Ogdoad
- Hu (Sufism), a name for God
- Hú, a kachina in Hopi mythology
- Adir Hu, a hymn sung at the Passover Seder
- Hu Gadarn, (Hu the Mighty) a Welsh legendary figure
- HU, a mantra popularized by the religion Eckankar as a name for and love song to God
People
- Hu (surname), a Chinese family name represented by the character 胡
- Hu Jintao (born 1942), former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China
- Chin-lung Hu (born 1984), Major League Baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Hu Hesheng (born 1928), Chinese mathematician
- Hu Yaobang (1915–1989), leader of the People's Republic of China who supported economic and political reforms
- Hu Haichang (born 1928), Chinese mechanical and astronautic engineer
- Hu Ning (1916–1997), Chinese theoretical physicist and educator
- Hu Shih (1891–1962), Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat
- Hu Qiaomu (1912–1992), Chinese revolutionary, sociologist, Marxist philosopher and prominent politician of People's Republic of China
- Hu Jimin (1919–1998), Chinese nuclear and plasma physicist and educator
- Hu Xiansu (1894–1968) Chinese botanist
- Ting-Ting Hu (born 1979), English-born Taiwanese actress
- Hu Nai-yuan, Taiwanese violinist
Places
- Shanghai, abbreviated Hù (沪/滬), the largest city in China
- Hu County, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
- Huy, Walloon name Hu, Belgian city
- Hu, Egypt, the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt
- Hanau, Germany, on vehicle registration plates
- Huesca, Spain, on vehicle registration plates
- Hungary, from it ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
- HU postcode area, covering Hull and areas of East Riding of Yorkshire
Universities
United States
- Hampton University, a private, historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, United States
- Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, United States
- Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, a private research university located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Hofstra University in New York, United States
- Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- Howard University in Washington DC, United States
Other countries
- Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon
- Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan
- Henan University, in Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Humboldt University of Berlin, in Berlin, Germany
- Hunan University, in Changsha, Hunan, China
- Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Hogeschool Utrecht in Utrecht, Netherlands
Other uses
- .hu, the Internet country code top-level domain for Hungary
- Hu (vessel), a type of ancient Chinese bronze vessel
- Hainan Airlines (IATA airline code HU)
- Holographic Universe, in quantum gravity and string theories
- Hounsfield Units, on the Hounsfield scale, a unit of measurement used on a computed tomography machine (CAT)
- HU, a bacterial histone-like DNA-binding protein
- Wu Hu (disambiguation), an ancient Chinese term for multiple groups in China
See also
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