Hu

A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

Proper noun

  1. A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
    • At the center of it all was Hu Shuo-Chieh, a decorated Taiwanese superstar who soon followed up his standout moment (his team would fall short in the finals) with an even more surprising move. In November, Mr. Hu, known...

Origin

From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.

Proper noun historical

  1. Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.

Proper noun Entry 3

  1. The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.

Related

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Proper noun Entry 4

  1. A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
    • [...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small...
    • The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund - 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:

Origin

From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.