Wu

American  

[woo] / wu /

noun

1. a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 222–80.

2. a Chinese language having several dialects, spoken widely in Anhwei, Chekiang, and Kiangsu provinces and including the dialect of Shanghai.

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Wu ¹ British  

/ wuː /

noun

1. a group of dialects of Chinese spoken around the Yangtze delta

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Wu ² British  

/ wuː /

noun

1. Harry, real name Wu Hongda. born 1937, Chinese dissident and human-rights campaigner, a US citizen from 1994: held in labour camps (1960–79); exiled to the US in 1985 but returned secretly to document forced labour in Chinese prisons

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Wu Scientific  

/ wo̅o̅ /

1. Chinese-born American physicist. Research with her colleagues on electron emission in the decay of radioactive elements showed that parity symmetry, long thought to hold for all physical laws, is in fact violated; the decay processes displayed odd parity, essentially entailing that nature distinguishes between right-handed and left-handed processes.

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Example Sentences

The concluding chapter of their best-of-33 encounter will begin on Saturday at 14:30 BST, with the winner playing either China's Wu Yize or Northern Ireland's Mark Allen in the final.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Their best-of-33 encounter resumes on Friday at 10:00 BST, with the remaining last-four match, between China's Wu Yize and Northern Ireland's Mark Allen, starting at 19:00 on Thursday.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Allen will now face either Wu Yize or Hossein Vafaei in a best-of-33 encounter that begins on Thursday at 19:00 BST.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Its unconventional business model—devoid of branch network, ATMs, or account settlement functions—has prevented it from benefiting from Japan’s rising interest rates, CreditSights’ Karen Wu says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

I wanted my mother to shout at Wu Tsing, to shout at Second Wife, to shout at Yan Chang and say she was wrong to tell me these stories.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan