Hu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hu"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu/, enPR: ho͞o
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.

Proper noun

Hu

1. A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

Translations

Chinese surname

• Arabic: هُو (ar) (hū), خُو (ḵū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡 (zh) (Hú)

• Greek: Χου (el) (Chou)
• Hebrew: חו
• Hindi: हु (hi) (hu), ख़ू (xū)
• Japanese: 胡 (ja) (こ, Ko), ホゥー (Hū), フー (Fū)
• Korean: 호(胡) (ko) (Ho), 후 (ko) (Hu)
• Persian: هو (fa)
• Russian: Ху (ru) (Xu)
• Thai: หู (th) (hǔu)
• Vietnamese: Hồ (胡)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Hu

1. (historical) Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Hu

1. The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.

See also

• Huh

Etymology 4

From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.

Proper noun

Hu

1. A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
   • 1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699:

     [...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one […]

   • 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:

     The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund

Etymology 5

Proper noun

Hu

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A chant consisting of many people singing "Hu" together.

Quotations

• 2001 03, James R. Lewis, The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 297:

  The ECK can be experienced through chanting the word "HU," a special name for God in ECKANKAR. Chanting HU with an open heart to God's love is a central spiritual practice of ECKANKAR. It is alleged to help lift one to spiritual self-realization, and ultimately God-realization.

• 2015 October 15, Harold Klemp, A Cosmic Sea of Words: The ECKANKAR Lexicon, ECKANKAR, →ISBN:

  HU, Law of. The first law of the physical universe. Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming power of the universes of HU, the Voice of HU (God). See also laws of the physical universe. / HU, A Year of. The fifth of the Spiritual Years of ECK. HU is the most ancient name for God, not God Itself.

Anagrams

• uh

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hy/

Proper noun

Hu

1. Huy (a municipality of Belgium)