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Wu¹
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 吳 /吴 (Wú). Doublet of O.
proper noun
- A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
- A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
- The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin. Linguists say the Wu dialect widely spoken in Shanghai, to take one prominent example, shares only about 31 percent lexical similarity with Mandarin, or roughly the same as English and French. The encounter at the Datian market began when the dumpling seller approached the foreigner with a phrase th
- The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty. The finest private gardens were built in Suzhou, a graceful old city with a network of canals and a cultured ambiance. It was founded in the sixth century B.C. as the capital of the kingdom of Wu and flourished as a center of trade and scholarship under successive dynasties.
- A common surname from Chinese
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The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
I deeply regretted having to miss seeing Hsing-ping, a very old town built by the ruler of the Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period of the third century.
Similar: Dong Wu, Dongwu, Eastern Wu, Sun Wu
- The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
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The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
Similar: Huainan, Hongnong, Southern Wu, Yang Wu
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The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
Similar: Wuyue
Similar: Gusu, Helu City, Suzhou, Woo, Wu Chinese, Jiangnan, Wuyue, Jiangzhe
Wu²
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 武 (Wǔ, “war, warrior, warlike”).
Wu³
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 烏 /乌 (Wū or Wù, “crow, raven, black”).
Wu⁴
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 巫 (Wū or Wú, “shaman, sorceror, witch”).
Wu⁵
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 㵲 (Wǔ).
Wu⁶
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
The romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various other Chinese surnames: 伍 (Wǔ), 仵 (Wǔ), 鄔／邬 (Wū).
Wu⁷
- /ˈwuː/
Where it comes from
From Cantonese 胡 (wu⁴). Doublet of Hu.
wu⁸
Where it comes from
From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 巫 (wū, “shaman”).
noun wus · wu
- A Chinese shaman.
WU⁹
- /ˌdʌb.əl.juːˈjuː/ UK
- /-jʊ-/ UK
- /ˌdʌb.əl.juˈju/ Canada, US
- /-jʊ-/ Canada, US
- /ˌdɐb.əl.jʉːˈjʉː/ Australia, New Zealand
- /-jʊ-/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˌdʌb.əl.jʉˈjʉ/ Scotland
- /-jʉ-/ Scotland
- /ˌɖəb.el.juːˈjuː/ India
- /-jʊ-/ India
Where it comes from
Initialism.
proper noun
- Initialism of Weather Underground
- Initialism of Windows Update
- Initialism of Washburn University
- Initialism of Washington University
- Initialism of Waynesburg University
- Initialism of Webster University
- Initialism of Willamette University
- Initialism of Winthrop University
- Initialism of World University
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shanghai dialect, wu dialect, wei, pu, fang, hausman, ftpd, hsin, nothingness, emptiness, void, nullity, nihility, vacuity, vacancy, nonexistence
proper noun
Similar: Woo
proper noun
Similar: Woo
Translations
Talk about this word "wu." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/wu. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. wu. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/wu "wu." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/wu.Cite this
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title = {wu},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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