Hu

Meanings

1. A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

1. Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.

1. The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.

1. A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.

1. they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
2. them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
3. their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.

1. Initialism of Hazara University.
2. Initialism of handling unit.
3. Initialism of Hounsfield unit on the Hounsfield scale, a unit of measurement used on a computed tomography machine.
4. prefix for utility helicopter designations

1. A name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.

Etymology

From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.