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
Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
Nu (letter), a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν
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
.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
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

See also
Nus (disambiguation)
Gnu, GNU
New (disambiguation)