Yu or YU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Yu (wind instrument), an ancient Chinese free-reed mouth organ, larger than the sheng
  • Yu (percussion instrument), an ancient Chinese musical instrument in a shape of a tiger with a serrated back or/and front

Other media

  • Yu (film), a 2003 Austrian film
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!, a Japanese manga series
  • YuYu Hakusho, a Japanese manga series
  • Yu (Stargate), a System Lord from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1
  • Yu Narukami, a character from the video game Persona 4

Businesses and organizations

Universities

  • Yale University, New Haven, United States
  • Al-Yamamah Private University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
  • Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
  • Yeshiva University, New York City, United States
  • Yeungnam University, Gyeongsang, South Korea
  • Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
  • York University, Toronto, Canada

Other businesses and organizations

  • YU Televentures, an Indian mobile handset manufacturer
  • Youth United, an Indian organization in Delhi, Chandigarh, Patiala and Bangalore
  • Youth Unlimited, a youth ministry in Canada and the United States
  • YU, the IATA code for EuroAtlantic Airways

Letters

  • U, in English
  • Yu (Cyrillic), in the Cyrillic alphabet (Ю)
  • Yu (kana), romanisation of the Japanese ゆ and ユ

Names and people

  • Yu the Great, legendary king in ancient China
  • Yu (Chinese surname) (余, 于, /, /, , , , , , , , , , , , , /)
  • List of people with surname Yu
  • Yu (Chinese given name)
  • Yū, a Japanese given name, including variants Yu, Yuu, and Yui
  • Yu People (), an ethnic group in ancient China
  • Yoo (Korean surname) (, , , ), a common Korean family name
  • You (surname), transliteration of several Chinese surnames, spelled Yu in the Wade–Giles romanization system

Places

In China

  • Chongqing, officially abbreviated to Yú ()
  • Henan, officially abbreviated to Yù ()
  • Yu opera, Chinese opera of Henan
  • Yü (region) (, ), geographic division of Tibet
  • Yu County, Hebei ()
  • Yu County, Shanxi ()
  • Yu (Chinese state) (), an ancient duchy in what is today China overthrown by Duke Xian of Jin
  • Yu River (Guangxi) (), China

Other places

  • Yugoslavia:
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code and derived ccTLD .yu)
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code and derived ccTLD .yu)
  • Yu, a village in Pate, Cambodia
  • Yu Island, an island in Indonesia
  • Yu River in the Kabaw Valley, Myanmar
  • Yu (Vychegda), a river in Komi Republic, Russia

Other

  • Yu, a transparent rice wine from Manipur

See also

  • Ye (disambiguation)
  • You (disambiguation)