GU, Gu, or gu may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Gu (instrument) Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as (). The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, Rock (geology), stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not ...

, Chinese drums **

Bangu (drum) The bangu (), often simply gu (), is a Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera. Striking the drum in different places produces different sounds. ...

() or Gu (), a Chinese "flowerpot" drum * ''

Global Underground Global Underground is a British record label and compilation series founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and James Todd. The label symbolised the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s and first manifesto for hi ...

'', an electronic dance music compilation series

Other media

* GU Comics, an online comic * '' .hack//G.U.'', a video game series * '' Godzilla: Unleashed'', a video game

Universities

* Gandhara University, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *

Gannon University Gannon University is a private Catholic university in Erie, Pennsylvania. Gannon University has approximately 4,500 students and 46,000 alumni. Its intercollegiate athletics include 18 athletic programs for men and women competing at the NCAA D ...

, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States *

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a Collegiate university, collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assem ...

, Guwahati, Assam, India * , or , Amsterdam, Netherlands *

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

, Washington D.C., United States * Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan * GIFT University, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan *

Gomal University Gomal University (Urdu: جامعہ گومل), is a Public university, public research university located in Dera Ismail Khan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Founded and established in 1974, the university is ...

, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *

Gonzaga University Gonzaga University (GU) () is a private Jesuit university in Spokane, Washington. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Founded in 1887 by Joseph Cataldo, an Italian-born priest and Jesuit missionary, the ...

, Spokane, Washington, United States *

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

, Gothenburg, Sweden ( sv, Göteborgs universitet , links=no) * Grantham University, Kansas City, Missouri, United States *

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian ...

, several campuses in Brisbane and the Gold Coast area, Australia *

Guangxi University Guangxi University (), known as Xida (), is a provincial research university located in Nanning, Guangxi and the oldest and largest university in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The university helped pioneer higher education in central an ...

, Nanning, Guangxi, China *

Guangzhou University Guangzhou University (GU; ) is a state university in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, China. The university is made up of two campuses. The major campus is located in Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center (HEMC, geographically called X ...

, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China * University Of Guilan, Guilan, Rasht, Iran *

Guizhou University Guizhou University (; Pinyin: Guìzhōu Dàxué), known as Guida (贵大 Guì Dà), is a provincial research university located in suburban Guiyang, capital of Guizhou, China. Founded in 1902, it is the flagship institution of higher learning ...

, Guiyang, Guizhou, China *

Gujrat University The University of Gujrat (UOG) is a Leading public university located in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 2004.Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the postgraduate level. It is accredited B++ by NA ...

, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Businesses

Gü Gü () is a dessert manufacturing company, whose products are sold in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the United States. The product is made in the UK and was created by James Av ...

, a company that produces a range of desserts * G.U., Japanese clothing brand *

GU Energy Labs GU Energy Labs is a company based in Berkeley, California, that produces performance sports nutrition products, most notably energy gels. Usually consumed during endurance events, the gels are designed to be quickly and easily digested. Other pr ...

, a Berkeley, California-based company that produces sports nutrition products

Medicine

* Gastric ulcer, a disease of the stomach * Genitourinary system, the reproductive system and the urinary system considered as a whole

People

Gu (surname) Gu () is a Chinese family name. Some places such as South Korea, and early immigrants from Wu-speaking region in China usually romanize this family name as "Koo" or "Ku". It is the 93rd name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. 989( ...

, a surname of Chinese origin, also found in Korea *

Gǔ (surname) Gǔ (谷) is a Chinese surname. According to a 2013 study it was 158th-most common surname in China, shared by 990,000 people or 0.075% of the population, with the province having the most people with the surname being Henan. The literal meaning of ...

谷, meaning ''valley'') came about when a noble family of the

Zhou Dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...

was rewarded a fief in a valley area. The descendants of the family adopted the name to link their lineage to that history. * Gŭ (surname 古), meaning ''ancient'') is uncommon, being the 204th most common surname in China. * Gū (surname) (辜) the family name ''Gū'' (meaning ''guilt'') is very rare * Gǔ (surname 骨) (meaning ''bone'') is exceedingly rare in China. *

Gene Upshaw Eugene Thurman Upshaw Jr. (August 15, 1945 – August 20, 2008), also known as "Uptown Gene" and "Highway 63", was an American professional football player for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League (AFL) and later the National Foot ...

, an American football player

Places

* Green Ukraine, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Ukrainian Republic of the Far East * Gu County (), Shanxi, China * Gu, Iran (disambiguation) ( fa, گو, links=no), any of several places in Iran *

Gu (administrative division) A ''gu'', or district, is an administrative unit in South Korea. There are two kinds of districts in South Korea. One is the autonomous district of special and metropolitan cities, which is a municipal entity similar to a city with its own m ...

( ko, 구, links=no), an administrative division of South Korea * Gu's Park, former name of Fuxing Park in Shanghai, China * GU postcode area, UK, covering west Surrey, north-east Hampshire, and a part of West Sussex *

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...

(postal code GU)

Other uses

* Gu (god), a god in Haitian Vodou and Yoruba (Africa) mythology *

Gu (poison) Gu () or jincan () was a venom-based poison associated with cultures of south China, particularly Nanyue. The traditional preparation of ''gu'' poison involved sealing several venomous creatures (e.g., centipede, snake, scorpion) inside a clos ...

(), in Chinese poison sorcery *

Gu (vessel) A gu is a type of ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties (i.e. 1600–256 BC). It was used to drink wine or to offer ritual libations. A gu is tall and slender, with a slightly flared base that tapers to a slim c ...

, a Chinese wine goblet from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, also ' *

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label= Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old ...

(ISO 639-1 language code) * GU₄ or GUD (𒄞), "

bull A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species ''Bos taurus'' (cattle). More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species (i.e., cows), bulls have long been an important symbol in many religions, includin ...

" in the Sumerian language ** ''Gu-anna'', the "Heavenly Bull", the Sumerian name for the constellation

Taurus Taurus is Latin for 'bull' and may refer to: * Taurus (astrology), the astrological sign * Taurus (constellation), one of the constellations of the zodiac * Taurus (mythology), one of two Greek mythological characters named Taurus * '' Bos tauru ...

* GU, a prefix for several types of

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