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shu

1 American  
[shoo] / ʃu /

noun

  1. the Confucian principle of refraining from actions toward others that would be disagreeable if done to oneself.


Shu 2 American  
[shoo] / ʃu /

noun

Egyptian Religion.
  1. the god of the air, sometimes represented with arms upraised, supporting the vault of heaven.


SHU 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Scoville heat unit. Scoville scale


Etymology

Origin of shu

From the Chinese word shù

Example Sentences

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This advanced method was developed by the lab of study co-author Adam Feist, a professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and a senior scientist at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability.

From Science Daily

Joshua Shu said that he had been a member for two years, but was “not really hyper-political.”

From Salon

“I don’t want him to be mayor,” Shu said, but calling for actual deportation was going “too far.”

From Salon

Will Shu, chief executive and co-founder of Deliveroo, said he was "very proud of everything we have achieved as a standalone business".

From BBC

Then each family would have Mu Shu for dinner that night.

From Salon