GU, Gu, or gu may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Gu (instrument) Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as (). The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, Rock (geology), stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not ...

, Chinese drums ** Bangu (drum) () or Gu (), a Chinese "flowerpot" drum * ''

Global Underground Global Underground is a British record label and compilation series founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and James Todd. The label symbolised the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s and first manifesto for hig ...

'', an electronic dance music compilation series

Other media

* GU Comics, an online comic * '' .hack//G.U.'', a video game series * '' Godzilla: Unleashed'', a video game

Universities

Gandhara University The Gandhara University is a private university located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is chartered by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It provides specialized training in the health sciences. The institutes that became Gandhar ...

, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States * Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India * , or , Amsterdam, Netherlands *

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

, Washington D.C., United States * Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan * GIFT University, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan *

Gomal University Gomal University ( Urdu: جامعہ گومل), is a public research university located in Dera Ismail Khan in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Founded and established in 1974, the university is one of the oldest institutions in the ...

, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, United States *

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...

, Gothenburg, Sweden ( sv, Göteborgs universitet , links=no) *

Grantham University University of Arkansas Grantham (UA Grantham) is a public online university based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Founded in 1951 as Grantham Radio License School, it would eventually be renamed Grantham University. The then- for-profit school offered ...

, Kansas City, Missouri, United States *

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asia ...

, several campuses in Brisbane and the Gold Coast area, Australia *

Guangxi University Guangxi University (), known as Xida (), is a provincial research university located in Nanning, Guangxi and the oldest and largest university in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The university helped pioneer higher education in central a ...

, Nanning, Guangxi, China * Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China * University Of Guilan, Guilan, Rasht, Iran * Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China *

Gujrat University The University of Gujrat (UOG) is a Leading public university located in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 2004.Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the postgraduate level. It is accredited B++ by N ...

, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Businesses

* Gü, a company that produces a range of desserts *

G.U. GU, Gu, or gu may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Gu (instrument), Chinese drums ** Bangu (drum) () or Gu (), a Chinese "flowerpot" drum * ''Global Underground'', an electronic dance music compilation series Other media * GU Comics, an o ...

, Japanese clothing brand *

GU Energy Labs GU Energy Labs is a company based in Berkeley, California, that produces performance sports nutrition products, most notably energy gels. Usually consumed during endurance events, the gels are designed to be quickly and easily digested. Other pro ...

, a Berkeley, California-based company that produces sports nutrition products

Medicine

Gastric ulcer Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is a break in the inner lining of the stomach, the first part of the small intestine, or sometimes the lower esophagus. An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer, while one in the first part of the intestines i ...

, a disease of the stomach *

Genitourinary system The genitourinary system, or urogenital system, are the organs of the reproductive system and the urinary system. These are grouped together because of their proximity to each other, their common embryological origin and the use of common path ...

, the reproductive system and the urinary system considered as a whole

People

Gu (surname) Gu () is a Chinese family name. Some places such as South Korea, and early immigrants from Wu-speaking region in China usually romanize this family name as "Koo" or "Ku". It is the 93rd name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. 989(1 ...

, a surname of Chinese origin, also found in Korea *

Gǔ (surname) Gǔ (谷) is a Chinese surname. According to a 2013 study it was 158th-most common surname in China, shared by 990,000 people or 0.075% of the population, with the province having the most people with the surname being Henan. The literal meaning of ...

谷, meaning ''valley'') came about when a noble family of the

Zhou Dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...

was rewarded a fief in a valley area. The descendants of the family adopted the name to link their lineage to that history. * Gŭ (surname 古), meaning ''ancient'') is uncommon, being the 204th most common surname in China. *

Gū (surname) Gu () is a Chinese-language surname, usually spelled as "Ku" or "Koo" in Taiwan. In 2013 it was found to be the 340th most common surname, shared by 138,000 people or 0.010% of the population in China China, officially the People's Republ ...

(辜) the family name ''Gū'' (meaning ''guilt'') is very rare * Gǔ (surname 骨) (meaning ''bone'') is exceedingly rare in China. * Gene Upshaw, an American football player

Places

Green Ukraine Green Ukraine, also known as Zelenyi Klyn ( uk, Зелений клин, Zelenyi Klyn, russian: Зелёный Клин, Zelyonyy Klin, literally: 'the green gore/wedge') or Zakytaishchyna (Ukrainian and Russian: , literally: 'Trans China'), is ...

, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Ukrainian Republic of the Far East * Gu County (), Shanxi, China *

Gu, Iran (disambiguation) Gu ( fa, گو, also Romanized as Gū; also known as Gao, Gaow, Gaū, Gāv, and Gāveh) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officia ...

( fa, گو, links=no), any of several places in Iran * Gu (administrative division) ( ko, 구, links=no), an administrative division of South Korea *

Gu's Park Fuxing Park () is located in the former French Concession of Shanghai, China, in Luwan District near Nanchang Road; the main entrance is at the cross street of Fuxingzhong Road and Chongqingnan Road. It was once the largest park in Shanghai. The ...

, former name of Fuxing Park in Shanghai, China *

GU postcode area The GU postcode area, also known as the Guildford postcode area, is a group of 38 postcode districts in South East England, within 24 post towns. These cover west Surrey (including Guildford, Woking, Godalming, Cranleigh, Farnham, Camberley, Ligh ...

, UK, covering west Surrey, north-east Hampshire, and a part of West Sussex *

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic ce ...

(postal code GU)

Other uses

* Gu (god), a god in Haitian Vodou and Yoruba (Africa) mythology * Gu (poison) (), in Chinese poison sorcery * Gu (vessel), a Chinese wine goblet from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, also ' *

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label=Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Guj ...

(ISO 639-1 language code) * GU₄ or GUD (𒄞), "

bull A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species '' Bos taurus'' (cattle). More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species (i.e., cows), bulls have long been an important symbol in many religions, incl ...

" in the Sumerian language ** ''Gu-anna'', the "Heavenly Bull", the Sumerian name for the constellation Taurus * GU, a prefix for several types of bi-pin connectors for lamp sockets {{disambiguation, geo