Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and mythology

Fictional elements

Zu (mythology) Zu or ZU may refer to: Arts, entertainment and mythology Fictional elements * Zu (mythology), an Akkadian god * Zu, a mountain featured in the films ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' and ''The Legend of Zu'' * Zu, a large birdlike monster fr ...

, an Akkadian god * Zu, a mountain featured in the films ''

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' ( zh, t=新蜀山劍俠) is a 1983 Hong Kong supernatural ''wuxia'' fantasy film directed by Tsui Hark and based on the xianxia novel '' Legend of the Swordsmen of the Mountains of Shu'' by Huanzhulouzh ...

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The Legend of Zu ''The Legend of Zu'', also known as ''Zu Warriors'', ( zh, t=蜀山傳) is a 2001 Hong Kong ''wuxia'' fantasy film directed and produced by Tsui Hark. The film starred Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin, Wu Jing, w ...

'' * Zu, a large birdlike monster from the ''

Final Fantasy is a Japanese fantasy Anthology series, anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fanta ...

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Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Zu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz band * ''zu'' and ''

zun The ''zun'' or ''yi'', used until the Song dynasty#Northern Song, 960–1127, Northern Song (960–1126) is a type of Chinese ritual bronzes, Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in t ...

'', types of ancient

Chinese ritual bronzes From , elaborately decorated bronze vessels were deposited as grave goods in the tombs of royalty and nobility during the Chinese Bronze Age. Documented excavations have found over 200 pieces in a single royal tomb. They were produced for an ind ...

Cuisine

* Zu (beverage), an alcoholic rice drink from Mizoram.

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) Cuneiform zu, (also sú, ṣú, and Sumerogram ZU (capital letter majuscule)), is an uncommon-use sign in the 1350s BC Amarna letters, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', and other cuneiform texts. Alphabetically, it could conceivably be used for le ...

, a sign in cuneiform writing *

Zulu language Zulu ( ), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu languages, Southern Bantu language of the Nguni languages, Nguni branch spoken in, and indigenous to, Southern Africa. Nguni dialects are regional or social varieties of the Nguni language, ...

, ISO 639-2 code:zu

People and titles

Zu (surname) Zu is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Tsu in Wade–Giles. It is listed 249th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common ...

(祖), a Chinese surname * Zu, a

nobiliary particle A nobiliary particle is a type of onomastic particle used in a surname or family name in many Western cultures to signal the nobility of a family. The particle used varies depending on the country, language and period of time. In some languages, it ...

, in German * Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer

Places

* Zu, North Khorasan, Iran * Zu, Razavi Khorasan, Iran

Science and mathematics

Scott–Potter set theory An approach to the foundations of mathematics that is of relatively recent origin, Scott–Potter set theory is a collection of nested axiomatic set theories set out by the philosopher Michael Potter, building on earlier work by the mathematician D ...

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

Other uses

* Ziauddin University *

Zeppelin University Zeppelin University (German: ''Zeppelin Universität'', ZU) is a private research university in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university is accredited by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. The university was es ...

Helios Airways Helios Airways was a low-cost Cyprus, Cypriot airline operating Scheduled air transport, scheduled and charter airline, charter flights between Cyprus and many European and African destinations. It had its corporate headquarters on the grounds of ...

(IATA code ZU)