Nu or NU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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 List of BlazBlue characters#Nu-13, character from the ''BlazBlue'' video game series * Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game ''Chrono Trigger'' * N.U. (film), ''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''

Businesses and organizations

Universities

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

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

People

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 * 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