Wu

[woo]

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.

Wu

¹

/ 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

Wu

²

/ wuː /

noun

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

Wu

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.

Example Sentences

One of the men worked in the office of then Foreign Minister Joseph Wu who now serves as the national security chief.

From BBC

“The industry worried about getting ethnicity ‘wrong’ and began to get extremely specific with identity casting,” Wu explains.

From Los Angeles Times

“When researchers consider the classic five categories of taste — sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami — there’s little disagreement over which of them is the least understood,” wrote Katherine J. Wu for The Atlantic.

From Salon

“It’s a little more favorable for us to be able to work on the fire and have a little less chance for volatile fire activity,” said Sam Wu, a spokesperson for the Garnet fire.

From Los Angeles Times

Price cuts may benefit consumers, but they risk creating an oversupply of Chinese EVs in the long run, Prof Wu added.

From BBC