# Nu

Nu or NU may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Music

* Nu metal, a heavy metal fusion genre
* Nu jazz, a jazz fusion genre
* Nu-disco, a genre of dance music
* Nu gaze, a shoegaze fusion genre
* Nu prog, a subgenre of progressive rock
* Nu-funk, a genre of dance music

### Other media

* Nu-13, a fictional character from the BlazBlue video game series
* Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
* N.U. (film), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
* Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within
* Nu Gundam from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
* Nickelodeon Universe, an indoor theme park at Mall of America
* Nu, a 1934 collection of essays written in Romanian by Eugène Ionesco

## Businesses and organizations
### Universities
#### United States

* National University (California), a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States
* Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States
* Northeastern University, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
* Northwest University (Washington), a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States
* Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States
* Norwich University, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States
* University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

#### Japan

* Nagoya University, a national research university
* Niigata University, a national university
* Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo

#### Other countries

* Nazarbayev University, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan
* Nanjing University, a national university in China
* Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
* Nile University, a private research university in Egypt
* National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines
** NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school
* Nkumba University, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda
* Nirma University, a private university in Ahmedabad, India
* Northern University, Nowshera, a private university in Nowshera, Pakistan

### Other businesses and organizations

* Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
* Northeast Utilities, a gas and electric company in the northeastern United States
* Northern Union, an early name of the Rugby Football League
* NU.nl, a Dutch online newspaper
* Nubank (NYSE: NU), a Brazilian bank
* Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)

## Language and scripts

* Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
* Nu (letter) (Ν or ν), the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
* Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
* Nu (Yiddish), a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up"
* Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

## People
### Burmese people

* Nga Nu, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367)
* Saya Gyi U Nu, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819)
* Me Nu, chief queen of King Bagyidaw (r. 1819–1837)
* U Nu, prime minister of the Union of Burma (1948–1958; 1960–1962)

### Other peoples

* Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group

## Places

* Nu river or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand
* Nicaragua (NATO country code NU)
* Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU)
** .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
* Nunavut, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada
* North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides

## Science and technology

* Norton Utilities, system diagnostic software
* .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
* Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language
* NuMachine, a computer architecture developed at MIT
* Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
* Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
* Nanodalton, a unit of mass; see dalton (unit)
* NU, the abbreviation for natural uranium, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature
* Sega Nu, arcade board architecture
* Not used (N.U.), indicating not populated parts in schematics and BOMs
* Poisson's ratio, a dimensionless ratio relating strain on element along one axis to the strain in an orthogonal axis, is symbolized by the Greek letter Nu, ν

## Other uses

* Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
* The Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow
* Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), the official currency of Bhutan
* The IATA airline code for Japan Transocean Air
* NU, designation used for the Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies biblical texts in the New King James Version
* NU 107, defunct radio station in the Philippines