Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional elements

* Zu, a mountain featured in the films ''

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' ( zh, t=新蜀山劍俠) is a 1983 Hong Kong supernatural ''wuxia'' fantasy film directed by Tsui Hark and based on the xianxia novel '' Legend of the Swordsmen of the Mountains of Shu'' by Huanzhulouzh ...

'' and ''

The Legend of Zu ''The Legend of Zu'', also known as ''Zu Warriors'', ( zh, t=蜀山傳) is a 2001 Hong Kong film produced and directed by Tsui Hark. The film starred Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin, Wu Jing, with special appeara ...

'' * ''ZU'', a " furry" anthology published by MU Press * Zu, a large birdlike monster from the ''

Final Fantasy is a Japanese video game, Japanese science fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and ...

'' series

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Zu (band) Zu is an Italian instrumental band from Rome. While their line-up of baritone sax, bass guitar and drums is typical of a jazz band, their hard-driving sound is indebted to punk rock and according to AllMusic "defies easy categorization". Zu ha ...

, an Italian hardcore/jazz band * ''zu'' and '' zun'', types of ancient

Chinese ritual bronzes Sets and individual examples of ritual bronzes survive from when they were made mainly during the Chinese Bronze Age. Ritual bronzes create quite an impression both due to their sophistication of design and manufacturing process, but also beca ...

Language

* There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as ''zu'': ** ず: Su (す) with

dakuten The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The , ...

(voicing marks) ** づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word *

Zu (cuneiform) Cuneiform zu, (also sú, ṣú, and Sumerogram ZU (capital letter majuscule)), is an uncommon-use sign in the 1350s BC Amarna letters, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', and other cuneiform texts. Alphabetically, it could conceivably be used for let ...

, a sign in cuneiform writing *

Zulu language Zulu (), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in Southern Africa. It is the language of the Zulu people, with about 12 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal ...

, ISO 639-2 code:zu

Names

Zu (surname) Zu is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Tsu in Wade–Giles. It is listed 249th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common ...

(祖), a Chinese surname * Zu, a nobiliary particle, in German *

Ziv Kalontarov Ziv Kalontarov (also "Kalontorov", "Kaluntarov", and "Kalntrov"; he, זיו קלונטרוב; born 15 January 1997) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer and the reigning European Games champion in the 50 m freestyle. In April 2015, Kalontarov won the ...

(born 1997), Israeli swimmer

Places

* Zu, Afghanistan, a village in Badakhshan Province *

Zu, North Khorasan Zu ( fa, زو, also Romanized as Zū and Zow) is a village in Qushkhaneh-ye Bala Rural District, Qushkhaneh District, Shirvan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Pe ...

, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran *

Zu, Razavi Khorasan Zu Salehabad ( fa, زو صالح اباد, also Romanized as Zū Şāleḩābād; also known as Zū, Zū Kalāt, and Şāleḩābād) is a village in Kakhk Rural District, Kakhk District, Gonabad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran I ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Science and technology

Scott–Potter set theory An approach to the foundations of mathematics that is of relatively recent origin, Scott–Potter set theory is a collection of nested axiomatic set theories set out by the philosopher Michael Potter, building on earlier work by the mathematician D ...

, called ZU because it is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements *

Zu (fish) ''Zu'' is a small genus of ribbonfishes with currently two recognized species: * ''Zu cristatus'' (Franco Andrea Bonelli, Bonelli, 1819) (scalloped ribbonfish) * ''Zu elongatus'' Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra & Sidney X. Kannemeyer, Kannemeyer, 1 ...

, a genus of ribbonfish

Other uses

Ziauddin University The Ziauddin University ( ur, ); abbreviated as ZU) is a private university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Zeppelin University Zeppelin University (German: ''Zeppelin Universität'', ZU) is a small and highly selective private research university on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university is accredited by the Ministry of Science, Researc ...

Zu (mythology) Zu or ZU may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional elements * Zu, a mountain featured in the films '' Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' and '' The Legend of Zu'' * ''ZU'', a " furry" anthology published by MU Press * Zu, a large birdlike ...

, a lesser god in Akkadian mythology * Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)