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

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Wu

On leaving: Behrens Wu went straight from finishing an economics degree at St. Gallen to the M.B.A. program, but wasn’t sure what she wanted to do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

But Behrens Wu said she realized she needed to hire smart people who had been there and done that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Every Sunday—she hasn’t missed one since the pandemic—Behrens Wu writes an email to Shippo’s remote staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The work, supported in part by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, was published recently in the journal Nature.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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