FromChinese胡(hú).Doublet ofWu. For less common variants, seeHu.
Hu
- A commonsurname from Chinese of eastAsian derivation.
2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on10 February 2021:At the center of it all wasHu Shuo-Chieh, a decorated Taiwanese superstar who soon followed up his standout moment (his team would fall short in the finals) with an even more surprising move. In November, Mr.Hu, known in gaming as SwordArt, announced that he was leaving his base in China,[…]
Hu
- (historical) Any of several peoples ofChina, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.
Hu
- The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.
FromArabicهُو(hū), from the town's ancient name,Egyptianḥwt-sḫm.
Hu
- A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventhnome of Upper Egypt.
1900, University of Oxford,Oxford University Gazette, page699:[...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one […]
2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla,Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN, page84:The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh andHu, Egypt Exploration Fund
Hu (lower casehu)
- A letter of theMazahua alphabet.
Hu
- Huy (amunicipality ofBelgium)
