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 meeting is likely meant to hammer out economic achievements to be announced at the leaders' summit, Fudan University professor Wu Xinbo told AFP.

From Barron's

The Paris talks are likely meant to hammer out trade and economic achievements to be announced at the leaders' summit, Fudan University professor Wu Xinbo told AFP.

From Barron's

Lynn Wu, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in AI and labor, said in an interview that there will be a “medium-term renaissance” for blue-collar work.

From MarketWatch

Zhang had been in a position to influence major decisions and personnel appointments, through which he could entrench his own networks, said Guoguang Wu, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A few years ago the questions were, ‘How do you keep up with Amazon’s free shipping within two days?’ ” says Laura Behrens Wu, chief executive officer of Shippo, a shipping platform for e-commerce businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal