HU or Hu may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* Hu Sanniang, a fictional character in the ''Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature * Tian Hu, one of the antagonists in the ''Water Margin'' * Hollywood Undead, an American rap rock band * The Hu, a Mongolian heavy metal band

Language

* Hu (digraph), used primarily in Classical Nahuatl * Fu (kana), also romanised as Hu, Japanese kana ふ and フ * Hu language, of Yunnan, China * Hungarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code 'hu')

Mythology and religion

* Hu (mythology), the deification of the first word in the Egyptian mythology of the Ennead * Huh (god), the deification of eternity in the Egyptian mythology of the Ogdoad * Hu (Sufism), a name for God * Hu (ritual baton), an early Chinese writing utensil later used in Daoist rituals * Hú, a kachina in Hopi mythology * Adir Hu, a hymn sung at the Passover Seder * Hu Gadarn (or Hu the Mighty), a Welsh legendary figure * HU, a mantra popularized by the religion Eckankar as a name for and love song to God

People

* Hu (singer), an Italian singer-songwriter * Hu (surname), a Chinese family name represented by the character 胡 * Any peoples in Chinese history translated as "barbarian" in English: **Donghu people

Places

* Shanghai, abbreviated Hù (沪/滬), the largest city in China * Hu County, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China * Huy, Walloon name Hu, Belgian city * Hu, Egypt, the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt * Hanau, Germany, on vehicle registration plates * Huesca, Spain, on vehicle registration plates * Hungary, from it ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code * HU postcode area, covering Hull and areas of East Riding of Yorkshire

Universities

United States

* Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States * Hampton University a private, historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, United States * Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, United States * Harrisburg University of Science and Technology a private research university located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States * Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States * Hofstra University in New York, United States * Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, United States * Howard University in Washington DC, United States * Husson University in Bangor, Maine, United States

Other countries

* Habib University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon * Hajvery University in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan * Hamdard University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan * Hazara University in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Helwan University, the largest university in Egypt * Henan University in Kaifeng, Henan, China * HITEC University in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan * Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany * Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan, China * Hongik University in South Korea * HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands

Other uses

* .hu, the Internet country code top-level domain for Hungary * Hu (vessel), a type of ancient Chinese bronze vessel * Hainan Airlines (IATA airline code HU) * Holographic Universe, in quantum gravity and string theories * Hounsfield Units, on the Hounsfield scale, a unit of measurement used on a computed tomography machine (CAT) * Bacterial_DNA_binding_protein#HU, HU, a bacterial histone-like DNA-binding protein * Wu Hu (disambiguation), an ancient Chinese term for multiple groups in China * ''Halo: Uprising'', a comic book series