YU

Yu or YU may refer to:

Music

 * Yu (wind instrument), an ancient Chinese free-reed mouth organ, larger than the sheng
 * Yu (percussion instrument), an ancient Chinese musical instrument in a shape of a tiger with a serrated back or/and front

Other media

 * Yu (film), a 2003 Austrian film
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!, a Japanese manga series
 * YuYu Hakusho, a Japanese manga series
 * Yu (Stargate), a System Lord from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1
 * Yu Narukami, a character from the video game Persona 4

Universities

 * Yale University, New Haven, United States
 * Al-Yamamah Private University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 * Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
 * Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
 * Yeshiva University, New York City, United States
 * Yeungnam University, Gyeongsang, South Korea
 * Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
 * York University, Toronto, Canada

Other businesses and organizations

 * YU Televentures, an Indian mobile handset manufacturer
 * Youth United, an Indian organization in Delhi, Chandigarh, Patiala and Bangalore
 * Youth Unlimited, a youth ministry in Canada and the United States
 * YU, the IATA code for EuroAtlantic Airways

Letters

 * U, in English
 * Yu (Cyrillic), in the Cyrillic alphabet (Ю)
 * Yu (kana), romanisation of the Japanese ゆ and ユ

Names and people

 * Yu (Chinese surname) (余, 于, 魚/鱼, 漁/渔, 楀, 喻, 兪, 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛/娱)
 * List of people with surname Yu
 * Yu (Chinese given name)
 * Yū, a Japanese given name, including variants Yu, Yuu, and Yui
 * Yu People (俞/余), an ethnic group in ancient China
 * Yoo (Korean surname) (兪, 庾, 劉, 柳), a common Korean family name
 * You (surname), transliteration of several Chinese surnames, spelled Yu in the Wade–Giles romanization system

In China

 * Chongqing, officially abbreviated to Yú (渝)
 * Henan, officially abbreviated to Yù (豫)
 * Yu opera, Chinese opera of Henan
 * Yü (region) (དབུས།, 衛), geographic division of Tibet
 * Yu County, Hebei (蔚县)
 * Yu County, Shanxi (盂县)
 * Yu (Chinese state) (虞), an ancient duchy in what is today China overthrown by Duke Xian of Jin
 * Yu River (Guangxi) (郁江), China

Other places

 * Yugoslavia:
 * Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code and derived ccTLD .yu)
 * Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code and derived ccTLD .yu)
 * Yu, a village in Pate, Cambodia
 * Yu (Vychegda), a river in Komi Republic, Russia

Other

 * Yu, a transparent rice wine from Manipur