YU

YU or Yu may stand for:

• Chongqing (渝), the abbreviation for the Chinese municipality
• Henan (豫), the abbreviation for the Chinese province
• Yu (Chinese name), a common Chinese family name
• Yu (Korean name), a common Korean family name
• Yugoslavia, especially,
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code)
• Yu the Great (禹 or 大禹), the founder of the Xia dynasty
• Yu (Stargate), a System Lord from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1
• Yu (Cyrillic), a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet
• Romanisation of the Japanese kana ゆ and ユ

Universities

• Yale University
• Yeshiva University
• York University

Anime

• Yu-Gi-Oh!
• YuYu Hakusho

Instruments

• Yu (wind instrument), an ancient Chinese free-reed mouth organ, larger than the Sheng
• Yu (percussion instrument), an ancient Chinese musical instrument in a shape of a tiger with a serrated back, played by running a stick through the serration, used to mark section endings

People

• Jiyuan Yu, a moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics
• Fictional characters:
  • Yuu Matsuura, in Marmalade Boy
  • Yu Komori, in Spider-Man: The Manga
  • Yick Yu, a character in Degrassi Junior High
  • Yu, the Goa'uld systemlord in the Stargate universe