Zu

Zu or ZU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional elements

• Zu, a mountain featured in the films Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain and The Legend of Zu
• ZU, a "furry" anthology published by MU Press
• Zu, a large birdlike monster from the Final Fantasy series

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Zu, an Italian hardcore/jazz band
• zu and zun, types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes

Language

• Zulu language, ISO 639 alpha-2 code
• German language word for "to"
• 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; primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word

Names

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

Places

• Zu, Afghanistan, a village in Badakhshan Province
• Zu, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Zu, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Science and technology

• Scott–Potter set theory, called ZU because it is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements
• Zu (genus), a genus of ribbonfish

Other uses

• Zu (mythology), a lesser god in Akkadian mythology
• Helios Airways (IATA code ZU)