Nu or NU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Nu metal Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, sometimes called aggro-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge. Nu met ...

, 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) This is a listing of notable characters from the video game ''Chrono Trigger'', a role-playing video game released in 1995 by Square Co. (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. In keeping with the time t ...

, 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 is a 1988 Japanese animated science fiction film set in the Universal Century timeline of the ''Gundam'' franchise. Making its theatrical debut on March 12, 1988, ''Char's Counterattack'' is the culmination of the original saga begun in ' ...

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 Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...

Businesses and organizations

Universities

United States

National University (California) National University (NU) is a private university with its headquarters in San Diego, California. Founded in 1971, National University offers academic degree programs at campuses throughout California, a satellite campus in Nevada, and various pro ...

, a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States *

Niagara University Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Appro ...

, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States *

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States *

Northwest University (Washington) Northwest University is a private Christian university in Kirkland, Washington. The university offers associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''do ...

, a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States * Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States *

Norwich University Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont is a private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont. It is the oldest private and senior military college in the United States and offers bachelor's and master's degrees on-campus ...

, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States * University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Japan

Nagoya University , abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was the seventh Imperial University in Japan, one of the first five Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of T ...

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

Other countries

Nazarbayev University Nazarbayev University (NU) is an autonomous research university in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Founded as a result of the initiative of the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2010 (June), it is an English-medium institu ...

, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan * Nanjing University, a national university in China *

Naresuan University Naresuan University (NU) ( th, มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร, ) is a government university in Phitsanulok Province, northern Thailand. It was established as a separate university on 29 July 1990, the 400th anniversary of t ...

, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand *

Nile University Nile University (NU) (Arabic: جامعة النيل) is the first non-profit, research and entrepreneurial university in Egypt. Founded in July 2006 with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The un ...

, a private research university in Egypt *

National University (Philippines) The National University (NU), colloquially ''National U'', is a private non–sectarian coeducational university located in Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines. The founder of the university, Mariano F. Jhocson Sr., established the institution on Au ...

, a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines ** NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school *

Nkumba University Nkumba University (NKU) is a chartered private university in Uganda. It was established in 1994 as part of a group of schools and colleges that originally grew from a kindergarten established in 1951. The university is not affiliated with any pa ...

, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda *

Nirma University Nirma University (NU) is a multi-disciplinary university located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It functions under the aegis of the Nirma Education and Research Foundation (NERF). The Gujarat Government has granted "Centre of Excellence" status ...

, a private university in Ahmedabad, India *

Northern University, Nowshera The Northern University (NU) is a private non profit university funded by EDR Trust, located in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The inauguration of the university was done by the President of Northern University General (R) Sawar Khan. I ...

, 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 Nubank is a Brazilian neobank and the largest fintech bank in Latin America. Its headquarters are located in São Paulo, Brazil. The company also has engineering offices in Berlin, Germany, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an office in Mexico City, Me ...

(NYSE: NU), a Brazilian bank * Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)

Language

Nu (cuneiform) Cuneiform sign nu is a common use syllabic, or alphabetic (for ''n'' or ''u''). It is restricted to "nu", but in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', or elsewhere has a Sumerogram (capital letter, majuscule) use NU, and probably mostly for a component ...

, a cuneiform sign * Nu (letter), a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν *

Nu (kana) Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent . They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language, ka ...

, the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ *

Nu (Yiddish) This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, ...

, a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up" * Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

People

Burmese people

Nga Nu Commander Nga Nu also known as Athwinthin Hmu Nga Nu''Athwinthin Hmu'' means "Captain/Commander of the Inner Royal Household Guards". ( my, အတွင်းသင်းမှူး ငနု, ) was a military commander in the service of King T ...

, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367) *

Saya Gyi U Nu U Nu Mohamad Kassim, better known as Saya Gyi U Nu, or U Nu ( my, ဦးနု; , July 17, 1762 – 1822), was a leading Burma, Burmese Islam in Burma, Muslim writer during the reign of King Bodawpaya. He combined words and terms from Burmes ...

, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819) *

Me Nu , image = Nanmadaw Me Nu.jpg , succession = Chief queen consort of Burma , reign = 5 June 1819 – 15 April 1837 , predecessor = Shin Paik Thaung , successor = Thiri Pawara Ti Law ...

, 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 , ''Mae Nam Salawin'' ( , name_etymology = , image = Sweet_View_of_Salween_River_in_Tang_Yan_Township,_Shan_State,_Myanmar.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Salween River in Shan State, Myanmar , map ...

or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand * Nicaragua (NATO country code NU) * Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU) **

.nu .nu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the island state of Niue. It was one of the first ccTLDs to be marketed to the Internet at large as an alternative to the gTLDs .com, .net, and .org. Playing on the phonetic ...

, the Internet top-level domain for Niue *

Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...

, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada * North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides

Science and technology

, the Internet top-level domain for Niue * Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language *

NuMachine The NuMachine, or Nu machine, was an early microprocessor-based computer workstation designed to interface with local area networks. It was developed in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) by Professor Steve Ward and his r ...

, a computer architecture developed at MIT *

Nucellar embryony Nucellar embryony (notated Nu+) is a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species, including many citrus varieties. Nucellar embryony is a type of apomixis, where eventually nucellar embryos from the nucellus tissue of the ovule ...

(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 Natural uranium (NU or Unat) refers to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature. It contains 0.711% uranium-235, 99.284% uranium-238, and a trace of uranium-234 by weight (0.0055%). Approximately 2.2% of its radioactivity comes fr ...

, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature * 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) Nu ("Watery One") or Nun ("The Inert One") ( Ancient Egyptian: ; Coptic: ), is the personification of the primordial watery abyss which existed at the time of creation and from which the creator sun god Ra arose, in ancient Egyptian religion ...

, 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 The New King James Version (NKJV) is an English translation of the Bible. The complete NKJV Bible was published in 1982 by Thomas Nelson, now HarperCollins. The NKJV is described by Thomas Nelson as being "scrupulously faithful to the origin ...