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 derivative form of shoegaze and alt-rock 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), 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 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, a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Japan

  • Nagoya University, a national research university
  • Niigata University, a national university
  • Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo

Other countries

  • National University, Bangladesh, a public collegiate university of Bangladesh
  • 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 and scripts

  • Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
  • Nu (Greek) (Ν or ν), the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • Nu (Armenian) (Ն or ն), the 22nd letter of the Armenian alphabet
  • 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

  • Norton Utilities, system diagnostic software
  • .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
  • Sega Nu, arcade board architecture
  • 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
  • Nucleophile (Nu), a chemical species that forms bonds by donating an electron pair

Other uses

  • Negative utilitarianism, an ethical philosophy
  • 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
  • NU 107, defunct radio station in the Philippines

See also

  • Nus (disambiguation)
  • Gnu, GNU
  • New (disambiguation)