Wu

English

Wikipedia

Proper noun

Wu

1. A Chinese language, spoken in most of Zhejiang province, Shanghai and southern Jiangsu province and is the second most-widely spoken Chinese lect after Mandarin.
2. Either of two Chinese surnames: (Simplified Chinese: 吴, Traditional Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú), or 伍.

Translations

one of the divisions of the Chinese language

• Arabic: وو (ar) (wuu) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳語 (cmn), 吴语 (cmn) (Wúyǔ), 吳方言 (cmn), 吴方言 (cmn) (Wú fāngyán)

• Finnish: wu-kiina (fi)
• French: wu (fr) m

• Japanese: 呉語 (ja) (ごご, Go-go)
• Korean: 우어 (ko) (U-eo)
• Russian: у (ru) (u) m
• Thai: ภาษาจีนอู๋ (th) (paa-săa jeen oo)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Ngô (vi)

Chinese surname

• Arabic: وو (ar) (wuu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳 (cmn), 吴 (cmn) (Wú), 伍 (Wǔ)

• Finnish: Wu (fi)

• Japanese: 吳 (ja) (ご, Go), ウー (ja) (Ū)
• Korean: 오 (ko) (O) (吳 (ko)), 우 (ko) (U)
• Russian: У (ru) (U)
• Vietnamese: Ngô (vi) (吳 (vi)), Wu (vi)

See also

• ISO 639-3 code wuu (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Wu, wuu
• Wiktionary's coverage of Wu terms

Anagrams

• UW

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wuː/

Etymology

Min Nan Hokkien 伍 and 吳.

Proper noun

Wu

1. A surname of Chinese origin.