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 $5,000 level isn’t out of reach for gold, said Wu, suggesting that a climb to that level would be a reasonable extension of the gains it’s already seen so far.

From MarketWatch

While it was good news for traditional manufacturers, Wu said it was not a panacea.

From Barron's

Hamilton College economist Stephen Wu noted that there have been an unusually large number of applications for the tenure-track opening in his department, and that the quality of the applicants is extremely high.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I have tracked the memory sector for almost 20 years, and this time really is different,” says Avril Wu, senior research vice president at Taipei, Taiwan-based TrendForce, which tracks the global semiconductor industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a far from faultless display from debutant Wu, who won his first ranking title at the International Championship in November.

From BBC