Hu

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
• The Hu, a Mongolian heavy metal 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
• Hu (ritual baton), an early Chinese writing utensil later used in Daoist rituals
• Hú, a kachina in Hopi mythology
• Adir Hu, a hymn sung at the Passover Seder
• Hu Gadarn (or 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 (singer), an Italian singer-songwriter
• Hu (surname), a Chinese family name represented by the character 胡
• Hu (people), various "barbarian" peoples in Chinese history

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

• Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, 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
• Husson University in Bangor, Maine, United States

Other countries

• Habib University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon
• Hajvery University in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• Hamdard University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan
• Hazara University in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Helwan University, the largest university in Egypt
• Henan University in Kaifeng, Henan, China
• HITEC University in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan
• Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany
• Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan, China
• Hongik University in South Korea
• HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the 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
• HU, handling unit
• Wu Hu (disambiguation), an ancient Chinese term for multiple groups in China
• Halo: Uprising, a comic book series

See also

• Hoo (disambiguation)
• Who (disambiguation)
• Huh (disambiguation)