Wu

Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 吳／吴 (Wú). Doublet of O.

Wu

1. (historical) Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
   1. (historical) A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
   2. (historical) A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
2. A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
   1. The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin.
   2. (historical) The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty.
   3. A common surname from Chinese:
   4. (historical) The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
      • 1977, Chiang, Yee, “Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo”, in China Revisited‎, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

        I deeply regretted having to miss seeing Hsing-ping, a very old town built by the ruler of the Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period of the third century.

   5. (historical) The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
   6. (historical) The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
   7. (historical) The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.

• Gusu, Helu City, Suzhou (Suzhou)
• Wuxian, Wuhsien, Wu-hsien (county)
• Wujun, Wu-chun (commandery)
• Wu Chinese, Jiangnan, Wuyue, Jiangzhe (language family)
• Gou Wu, Gouwu, Gong Wu, Gongwu (Spring & Autumn Period realm)
• Dong Wu, Dongwu, Eastern Wu, Sun Wu (Three Kingdoms realm)
• Huainan, Hongnong, Southern Wu, Yang Wu (Ten Kingdoms realm ruled from Yangzhou)
• Wuyue (Ten Kingdoms realm ruled from Hangzhou)
• Woo (surname)

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

Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 武 (Wǔ, “war, warrior, warlike”).

Wu

1. A surname from Chinese.
2. (historical) An epithet of numerous kings and emperors in Chinese history who were honored with variants of the posthumous name Wuwang or Wudi.

Although the Chinese usage of Wu as a posthumous name is adjectival and should properly be translated—as, e.g., "the Martial Emperor of the Han dynasty"—or treated as an epithet in a similar manner to emperors called after their era names—as, e.g., "the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty"—it is much more common to encounter them in English sources treated as proper names—as, e.g., "Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty"—despite the Chinese meaning nothing of the sort.

• Woo (surname)
• Mo (surname)
• martial, war-like, etc. (royal epithet)

Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 烏／乌 (Wū or Wù, “crow, raven, black”).

Wu

1. A river in Guizhou, China, a tributary of the Yangtze.
2. A surname from Chinese.

• Woo, Wujiang

Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 巫 (Wū or Wú, “shaman, sorceror, witch”).

Wu

1. A river in Hunan, China, a tributary of the Yuan.
2. A surname from Chinese.

• Woo, Wushui

Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 㵲 (Wǔ).

Wu

1. A river in Hunan, China, a tributary of the Yuan.

• Woo, Wushui

The romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various other Chinese surnames: 伍 (Wǔ), 仵 (Wǔ), 鄔／邬 (Wū).

Wu

1. A surname from Chinese.

• Woo

From Cantonese 胡 (wu⁴). Doublet of Hu.

Wu

1. A surname from Chinese.

• Woo

• UW

From Cantonese 胡 (Hú).

Wu

1. a surname from Cantonese

Borrowed from Mandarin 吳／吴 (Wú) and 伍 (Wǔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu/, [ˈwu]

Wu (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓ)

1. a surname from Mandarin of Chinese origin