Zu

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Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and mythology

Fictional elements

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Zu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz band
  • zu and zun, types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes

Language

  • There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as zu:
    • ず: Su (す) with dakuten (voicing marks)
    • づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word
  • Zu (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
  • Zulu language, ISO 639-2 code:zu

People and titles

  • Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname
  • Zu, a nobiliary particle, in German
  • Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer

Places

  • Zu, North Khorasan, Iran
  • Zu, Razavi Khorasan, Iran

Science and mathematics

  • Scott–Potter set theory, called ZU because it is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements
  • Zu (fish), a genus of ribbonfish

Other uses

  • Ziauddin University
  • Zeppelin University
  • Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)

See also

  • Zou (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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