Zu

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Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional elements

Zu, a mountain featured in the films Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain and The Legend of Zu
Zu, a large birdlike monster from the Final Fantasy series

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Zu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz band
zu and zun, types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes

Brett ZÜ, an urban artist of Vancouver

Language

There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as zu:
- ず: Su (す) with dakuten (voicing marks)
- づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word
Zu (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
Zulu language, ISO 639-2 code:zu

Names

Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname
Zu, a nobiliary particle, in German
Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer

Places

Zu, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
Zu, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Science and technology

Scott–Potter set theory, called ZU because it is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements
Zu (fish), a genus of ribbonfish

Other uses

Ziauddin University
Zeppelin University
Zu (mythology), a lesser god in Akkadian mythology
Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)

See also

Zou (disambiguation)

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