Zu Explained

Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and mythology

Fictional elements

• Zu (mythology), an Akkadian god
• 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

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

People and titles

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

Places

• Zu, North Khorasan, Iran
• Zu, Razavi Khorasan, Iran

Science and mathematics

• 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
• Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)

See also

• Zou (disambiguation)