PU, Pu, or pu may refer to:

Organizations

Political parties

  • Ummah Party (Indonesia) (Partai Ummat), a political party in Indonesia

People and names

  • Pu (Chinese surname), shared by several people
  • Pu (Indian given name), shared by several people
  • Pu Ling-en (born 1936), a pen name of British poet J.H. Prynne
  • Pu Yen (1900–2008), Thai centenarian who lived to an age of 108
  • Yingluck Shinawatra (born 1967), nicknamed Pu, Thai businesswoman and politician

Places

  • Pu County, in Shanxi, China
  • Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa (NATO country code PU)
  • Province of Pesaro and Urbino, a province in the Marche region of Italy
  • Punjab, India, a state in northern India (postal code PU)

Universities

In India

  • Panjab University, Chandigarh, a university in India
  • Patna University, a university in Bihar, India
  • Pondicherry University, a central university in Puducherry, India

In the United States

  • Parker University, a university in Dallas, Texas, United States
  • Point University, a university in West Point, Georgia, United States
  • Princeton University, a university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
  • Purdue University, a university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

In other countries

  • Purbanchal University, a university in Biratnagar, Nepal
  • University of the Punjab, a public university in Lahore, Pakistan
  • University of the Punjab, Gujranwala, a public university in Gujranwala, Pakistan
  • University of Plovdiv, a public university in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • Prešov University, a public university in Prešov, Slovakia
  • Providence University, a university in Taichung, Taiwan

Science and technology

  • Plutonium, symbol Pu, a chemical element
  • Processing unit, an electronic circuit that performs operations on some external data source
  • Polyurethane, a common type of plastic
  • pu, a label in the per-unit system of power systems analysis
  • PU learning, a collection of semisupervised techniques in machine learning
  • PU leather or artificial leather, a material made with polyurethane
  • PU resistor, a pull-up resistor
  • PU scope, a sniper scope of Soviet origin
  • Power unit, component that powers a machine, a vehicle, or a train. Almost equivalent to an engine.

Other uses

  • Pu (Taoism), early Taoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity
  • PU, an abbreviation for Proto-Ukrainian, an aspect of the Old East Slavic language
  • pu, the Toki Pona name for the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good
  • "Pu", a song by Arca from Kick IIIII
  • , the Charonia tritonis
  • PU, an abbreviation of Power Unlimited, a Dutch video games magazine

See also

  • Poo (disambiguation)
  • Peugh (disambiguation)
  • Pue (disambiguation)
  • Pew (disambiguation)
  • Pugh (disambiguation)
  • Pickup (disambiguation)
  • Pull up (disambiguation)