Hu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hu"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu/, enPR: ho͞o
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.

Proper noun

Hu

1. A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
   • 2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 February 2021:

     At the center of it all was Hu Shuo-Chieh, a decorated Taiwanese superstar who soon followed up his standout moment (his team would fall short in the finals) with an even more surprising move. In November, Mr. Hu, known in gaming as SwordArt, announced that he was leaving his base in China, […]

Translations

Chinese surname

• Arabic: هُو (ar) (hū), خُو (ḵū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡 (zh) (Hú)

• Greek: Χου (el) (Chou)
• Hebrew: חו
• Hindi: हु (hi) (hu), ख़ू (xū)
• Japanese: 胡 (ja) (こ, Ko), ホゥー (Hū), フー (Fū)
• Korean: 호(胡) (ko) (Ho), 후 (ko) (Hu)
• Persian: هو (fa)
• Russian: Ху (ru) (Xu)
• Thai: หู (th) (hǔu)
• Vietnamese: Hồ (vi) (胡)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Hu

1. (historical) Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Hu

1. The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.

See also

• Huh

Etymology 4

From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.

Proper noun

Hu

1. A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
   • 1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699:

     [...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one […]

   • 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:

     The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund

Anagrams

• uh

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w/

Letter

Hu (lower case hu)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hy/

Proper noun

Hu

1. Huy (a municipality of Belgium)