Nu

Nu or NU may refer to:

Music

 * Nu metal, a heavy metal fusion genre
 * Nu jazz, a jazz fusion genre
 * Nu-disco, a genre of dance music
 * Nu gaze, a shoegaze fusion genre
 * Nu prog, a subgenre of progressive rock
 * Nu-funk, a genre of dance music

Other media

 * Nu-13, a fictional character from the BlazBlue video game series
 * Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
 * N.U. (film), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
 * Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within
 * Nu Gundam from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
 * Nickelodeon Universe, an indoor theme park at Mall of America
 * Nu, a 1934 collection of essays written in Romanian by Eugène Ionesco

United States

 * National University (California), a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States
 * Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States
 * Northeastern University, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 * Northwest University (Washington), a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States
 * Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States
 * Norwich University, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States
 * University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Japan

 * Nagoya University, a national research university
 * Niigata University, a national university
 * Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo

Other countries

 * Nazarbayev University, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan
 * Nanjing University, a national university in China
 * Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
 * Nile University, a private research university in Egypt
 * National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines
 * NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school
 * Nkumba University, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda
 * Nirma University, a private university in Ahmedabad, India
 * Northern University, Nowshera, a private university in Nowshera, Pakistan

Other businesses and organizations

 * Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
 * Northeast Utilities, a gas and electric company in the northeastern United States
 * Northern Union, an early name of the Rugby Football League
 * NU.nl, a Dutch online newspaper
 * Nubank (NYSE: NU), a Brazilian bank
 * Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)

Language and scripts

 * Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
 * Nu (letter) (Ν or ν), the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
 * Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
 * Nu (Yiddish), a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up"
 * Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

Burmese people

 * Nga Nu, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367)
 * Saya Gyi U Nu, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819)
 * Me Nu, chief queen of King Bagyidaw (r. 1819–1837)
 * U Nu, prime minister of the Union of Burma (1948–1958; 1960–1962)

Other peoples

 * Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group

Places

 * Nu river or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand
 * Nicaragua (NATO country code NU)
 * Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU)
 * .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 * Nunavut, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada
 * North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides

Science and technology

 * .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 * Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language
 * NuMachine, a computer architecture developed at MIT
 * Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
 * Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
 * Nanodalton, a unit of mass; see dalton (unit)
 * NU, the abbreviation for natural uranium, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature
 * Sega Nu, arcade board architecture
 * Not used (N.U.), indicating not populated parts in schematics and BOMs
 * Poisson's ratio, a dimensionless ratio relating strain on element along one axis to the strain in an orthogonal axis, is symbolized by the Greek letter Nu, ν

Other uses

 * Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
 * The Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow
 * Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), the official currency of Bhutan
 * The IATA airline code for Japan Transocean Air
 * NU, designation used for the Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies biblical texts in the New King James Version