YU

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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

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 Shin Megami Tensei: 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, Gyeongsan, 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

Letters

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

Names and people

• Yu (Chinese surname) (余, 于, 魚/鱼, 漁/渔, 楀, 柳, 劉/刘, 俞, 喻, 兪, 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛/娱
  • List of people with surname Yu
• Yū, a Japanese given name, including variants Yu, Yuu, and Yui
• Yu the Great (禹 or 大禹) (2200–2100 BC), founder of the Xia dynasty
• Yu People (俞/余), an ethnic group in ancient China
• Liu, a Chinese surname (劉/刘, 柳, 留, 廖, 六, 俞, 兪)
• Lü (surname) (呂/吕)
• Yoo (Korean name) (兪, 庾, 劉, 柳), a common Korean family name
• You (surname), transliteration of several Korean surnames, spelled Yu in the Wade–Giles romanization system

Places

In China

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

Other

• Yu, a transparent rice wine from Manipur

See also

• Ye (disambiguation)
• You (disambiguation)