Hu

• IPA^(key): /hu/, enPR: ho͞o
• Rhymes: -uː

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

Hu

1. A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

Hu

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

Hu

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

• Huh

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

Hu

1. A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
   • 1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699:

     [...] 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 curved flint knife, worked along one […]

   • 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:

     The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund

Hu

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A chant consisting of many people singing "Hu" together.

• 2001 03, James R. Lewis, The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 297:

  The ECK can be experienced through chanting the word "HU," a special name for God in ECKANKAR. Chanting HU with an open heart to God's love is a central spiritual practice of ECKANKAR. It is alleged to help lift one to spiritual self-realization, and ultimately God-realization.

• 2015 October 15, Harold Klemp, A Cosmic Sea of Words: The ECKANKAR Lexicon, ECKANKAR, →ISBN:

  HU, Law of. The first law of the physical universe. Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming power of the universes of HU, the Voice of HU (God). See also laws of the physical universe. / HU, A Year of. The fifth of the Spiritual Years of ECK. HU is the most ancient name for God, not God Itself.

• uh

• IPA^(key): /hy/

Hu

1. Huy (a municipality of Belgium)