Xu or XU may refer to:
Surnames
*
Xu (surname 徐)
Xu () is a Chinese surname, Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of Romanization of Chinese, romanization, it is spelled as "Hsu", which is commonly used in Taiwan or overseas Chinese communities. It is different from Xu (surname 許 ...
( ''Xú'')
*
Xu (surname 許)
Xu () is a Chinese surname. In the Wade-Giles system of Romanization of Chinese, romanization, it is romanized as Hsu, which is commonly used in Taiwan.
Variations Sinitic languages
* Cantonese: Heoi (Jyutping), Héui (Yale romanization of Can ...
(/ ''Xǔ'')
*
Xu (surname 胥) ( ''Xū'')
The
tones of these surnames are different in Mandarin, but if the tone
diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...
s are omitted then each surname would be spelled Xu in
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
, and Hsü in the
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles ( ) is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from the system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles's '' A Chinese–English Dictionary'' ...
system or Hsu if the
diaeresis is also omitted.
People and characters
*
ǃXu, a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people
*
ǃXu (god), the creator god of the ǃKung
* Xu, a
minor character in the game ''Final Fantasy VIII''
Places
*
Xu (state) (), a state of ancient China in modern Jiangsu and Anhui
*
Xǔ (state) (), a state of ancient China in modern Henan
Universities
*
X University (Toronto Metropolitan University aka Ryerson Polytechnic Institute), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Xavier University (disambiguation)
**
Xavier University
Xavier University ( ) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier had an enrollment of approximately 5,600 undergraduate an ...
in Cincinnati, United States
**
Xavier University of Louisiana
Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) is a Private university, private Historically black colleges and universities, historically black Roman Catholic, Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic Historically black c ...
, United States
*
Xiamen University
Xiamen University (XMU; ) is a public university in Siming, Xiamen, Siming, Xiamen, Fujian, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Pro ...
, Xiamen, Fujian, China
*
Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
Other uses
*
African Express Airways (IATA code XU), a Kenyan airline
*
X unit (symbol xu), a unit of length approximately equal to 0.1 pm (10
−13 m), used for X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths
*
Xu (currency), a former 1/100 subdivision of the Vietnamese Dong
*
XU (intelligence organisation), a clandestine intelligence organisation in occupied Norway during World War II
*
PSA XU engine, a series of petrol engines from PSA
See also
*
*
HSU (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation