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 monster from the ''

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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

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), 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-Nata ...

, ISO 639-2 code:zu

Names

* Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname * Zu, a

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, in German * Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer

Places

* Zu, Afghanistan, a village in Badakhshan Province * Zu, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Zu, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Science and technology

* Scott–Potter set theory, called ZU because it is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements * Zu (fish), a genus of ribbonfish

Other uses

* Ziauddin University * Zeppelin University * Zu (mythology), a lesser god in Akkadian mythology * Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)