Nu
Nu or NU may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Nu metal, a heavy metal fusion genre
 - Nu jazz, a jazz fusion genre
 - Nu-disco, a genre of dance music
 - Nu gaze, a derivative form of shoegaze and alt-rock genre
 - Nu prog, a subgenre of progressive rock
 - Nu-funk, a genre of dance music
 
Other media
- Nu-13, a fictional character from the BlazBlue video game series
 - Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
 - N.U. (film), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
 - Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within
 - Nu Gundam from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
 - Nickelodeon Universe, an indoor theme park at Mall of America
 - Nu, a 1934 collection of essays written in Romanian by Eugène Ionesco
 
Businesses and organizations
Universities
United States
- National University (California), a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States
 - Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States
 - Northeastern University, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 - Northwest University (Washington), a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States
 - Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States
 - Norwich University, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States
 - University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States
 
Japan
- Nagoya University, a national research university
 - Niigata University, a national university
 - Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo
 
Other countries
- Nazarbayev University, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan
 - Nanjing University, a national university in China
 - Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
 - Nile University, a private research university in Egypt
 - National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines 
- NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school
 
 - Nkumba University, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda
 - Nirma University, a private university in Ahmedabad, India
 - Northern University, Nowshera, a private university in Nowshera, Pakistan
 
Other businesses and organizations
- Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
 - Northeast Utilities, a gas and electric company in the northeastern United States
 - Northern Union, an early name of the Rugby Football League
 - NU.nl, a Dutch online newspaper
 - Nubank (NYSE: NU), a Brazilian bank
 - Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)
 
Language and scripts
- Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
 - Nu (letter) (Ν or ν), the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
 - Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
 - Nu (Yiddish), a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up"
 - Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa
 
People
Burmese people
- Nga Nu, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367)
 - Saya Gyi U Nu, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819)
 - Me Nu, chief queen of King Bagyidaw (r. 1819–1837)
 - U Nu, prime minister of the Union of Burma (1948–1958; 1960–1962)
 
Other peoples
- Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group
 
Places
- Nu river or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand
 - Nicaragua (NATO country code NU)
 - Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU) 
- .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 
 - Nunavut, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada
 - North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides
 
Science and technology
- Norton Utilities, system diagnostic software
 - .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 - Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language
 - NuMachine, a computer architecture developed at MIT
 - Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
 - Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
 - Nanodalton, a unit of mass; see dalton (unit)
 - NU, the abbreviation for natural uranium, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature
 - Sega Nu, arcade board architecture
 - Not used (N.U.), indicating not populated parts in schematics and BOMs
 - Poisson's ratio, a dimensionless ratio relating strain on element along one axis to the strain in an orthogonal axis, is symbolized by the Greek letter Nu, ν
 
Other uses
- Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
 - The Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow
 - Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), the official currency of Bhutan
 - The IATA airline code for Japan Transocean Air
 - NU, designation used for the Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies biblical texts in the New King James Version
 - NU 107, defunct radio station in the Philippines