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

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