# Hu

HU or Hu may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* Hu Sanniang, a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature
* Tian Hu, one of the antagonists in the Water Margin
* Hollywood Undead, an American rap rock band
* The Hu, a Mongolian heavy metal band

## Language

* Hu (digraph), used primarily in Classical Nahuatl
* Fu (kana), also romanised as Hu, Japanese kana ふ and フ
* Hu language, of Yunnan, China
* Hungarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code 'hu')
* Ƕ (hwair), the ligature of H and u

## Mythology and religion

* Hu (mythology), the deification of the first word in the Egyptian mythology of the Ennead
* Huh (god), the deification of eternity in the Egyptian mythology of the Ogdoad
* Hu (Sufism), a name for God
* Hu (ritual baton), an early Chinese writing utensil later used in Daoist rituals
* Hú, a kachina in Hopi mythology
* Adir Hu, a hymn sung at the Passover Seder
* Hu Gadarn (or Hu the Mighty), a Welsh legendary figure
* HU, a mantra popularized by the religion Eckankar as a name for and love song to God

## People

* Hu (singer), an Italian singer-songwriter
* Hu (surname), a Chinese family name represented by the character 胡
* Hu (people), various "barbarian" peoples in Chinese history

## Places

* Shanghai, abbreviated Hù (沪/滬), the largest city in China
* Hu County, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
* Huy, Walloon name Hu, Belgian city
* Hu, Egypt, the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt
* Hanau, Germany, on vehicle registration plates
* Huesca, Spain, on vehicle registration plates
* Hungary, from it ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
* HU postcode area, covering Hull and areas of East Riding of Yorkshire

## Universities
### United States

* Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
* Hampton University a private, historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, United States
* Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, United States
* Harrisburg University of Science and Technology a private research university located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
* Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
* Hofstra University in New York, United States
* Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, United States
* Howard University in Washington DC, United States
* Husson University in Bangor, Maine, United States

### Other countries

* Habib University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
* Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon
* Hajvery University in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
* Hamdard University in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
* Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan
* Hazara University in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
* Helwan University, the largest university in Egypt
* Henan University in Kaifeng, Henan, China
* HITEC University in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan
* Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany
* Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan, China
* Hongik University in South Korea
* HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands

## Other uses

* .hu, the Internet country code top-level domain for Hungary
* Hu (vessel), a type of ancient Chinese bronze vessel
* Hainan Airlines (IATA airline code HU)
* Holographic Universe, in quantum gravity and string theories
* Hounsfield Units, on the Hounsfield scale, a unit of measurement used on a computed tomography machine (CAT)
* HU, a bacterial histone-like DNA-binding protein
* HU, handling unit
* Wu Hu (disambiguation), an ancient Chinese term for multiple groups in China
* Halo: Uprising, a comic book series