GU

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GU, Gu, or gu may refer to:

Arts and entertainment[]

Music[]

  • Gu (instrument), Chinese drums
    • Bangu (drum) (Chinese: 板鼓; pinyin: bǎngǔ) or Gu (Chinese: ; pinyin: ), a Chinese "flowerpot" drum
  • Global Underground, an electronic dance music compilation series

Other media[]

Universities[]

Businesses[]

  • , a company that produces a range of desserts
  • G.U., Japanese clothing brand
  • GU Energy Labs, a Berkeley, California-based company that produces sports nutrition products

Medicine[]

  • Gastric ulcer, a disease of the stomach
  • Genitourinary system, the reproductive system and the urinary system considered as a whole

People[]

  • Gu (surname), a family name of the Chinese and Taiwanese
  • Gǔ (surname) 谷, meaning valley) came about when a noble family of the Zhou Dynasty was rewarded a fief in a valley area. The descendants of the family adopted the name to link their lineage to that history.
  • Gŭ (surname 古), meaning ancient) is uncommon, being the 204th most common surname in China.
  • Gū (surname) (辜) the family name (meaning guilt) is very rare
  • (meaning bone) is exceedingly rare in China.
  • Gene Upshaw, an American football player

Places[]

  • Green Ukraine, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Ukrainian Republic of the Far East
  • Gu County (Chinese: 古县), Shanxi, China
  • Gu, Iran (disambiguation) (Persian: گو‎), any of several places in Iran
  • Gu (administrative division) (Korean: ), an administrative division of South Korea
  • Gu's Park, former name of Fuxing Park in Shanghai, China
  • GU postcode area, UK, covering west Surrey, north-east Hampshire, and a part of West Sussex
  • Guam (postal code GU)

Other uses[]

  • Gu (god), a god in Haitian Vodou and Yoruba (Africa) mythology
  • Gu (poison) (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade–Giles: ku), in Chinese poison sorcery
  • Gu (vessel), a Chinese wine goblet from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, also ku
  • Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 language code)
  • GU4 or GUD (