YU
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YU or Yu may stand for:
- Henan, abbreviation for the Chinese province
- Yu (Chinese name), a common Chinese family name
- Yu (Korean name), a common Korean family name
- Yugoslavia, especially,
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code)
- Yu (Xia dynasty ruler), the founder of the Xia dynasty
- Yu (Stargate), a System Lord from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1
- Yu (Cyrillic), a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet
- Romanisation of the Japanese kana ゆ and ユ
- Universities
- Anime
- Instruments
- 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, played by running a stick through the serration, used to mark section endings
- People
- Jiyuan Yu, a moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics
- Fictional characters:
- Yuu Matsuura, in Marmalade Boy
- Yu Komori, in Spider-Man: The Manga