Nu
Nu or NU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music
 Nu metal, a heavy metal fusion genre
 Nu jazz, a jazz fusion genre
 Nu-disco, a genre of dance music
 Nu gaze, a shoegaze fusion genre
 Nu prog, a subgenre of progressive rock
 Nu-funk, a genre of dance music

Other media
 Nu-13, a fictional character from the BlazBlue video game series
 Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
 N.U. (film), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
 Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within
 Nu Gundam from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
 Nickelodeon Universe, an indoor theme park at Mall of America
 Nu, a 1934 collection of essays written in Romanian by Eugène Ionesco

Businesses and organizations

Universities

United States
 National University (California), a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States
 Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States
 Northeastern University, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 Northwest University (Washington), a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States
 Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States
 Norwich University, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States
 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Japan
Nagoya University, a national research university
Niigata University, a national university
Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo

Other countries
Nazarbayev University, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan
 Nanjing University, a national university in China
 Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
 Nile University, a private research university in Egypt
 National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines
 NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school
 Nkumba University, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda
 Nirma University, a private university in Ahmedabad, India
 Northern University, Nowshera, a private university in Nowshera, Pakistan

Other businesses and organizations
 Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
 Northeast Utilities, a gas and electric company in the northeastern United States
 Northern Union, an early name of the Rugby Football League
 NU.nl, a Dutch online newspaper
 Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)

Language
 Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
 Nu (letter), a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν
 Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
 Nu (word), a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up"
 Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

People

Burmese people
 Nga Nu, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367)
 Saya Gyi U Nu, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819)
 Me Nu, chief queen of King Bagyidaw (r. 1819–1837)
 U Nu, Prime Minister of the Union of Burma (1948–1958; 1960–1962); "U" is a title equivalent to "Mr."

Other peoples
 Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group

Places
 Nu river or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand
 Nicaragua (NATO country code NU)
 Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU)
 .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 Nunavut, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada
 North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides

Science and technology
 .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language
 NuMachine, a computer architecture developed at MIT
 Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
 Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
 Nanodalton, a unit of mass; see dalton (unit)
 NU, the abbreviation for natural uranium, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature
 Poisson's ratio, a dimensionless ratio relating strain on element along one axis to the strain in an orthogonal axis, is symbolized by the Greek letter Nu, ν

Other uses 
 Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
 The Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow
 Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), the official currency of Bhutan
The IATA airline code for Japan Transocean Air
NU, designation used for the Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies biblical texts in the New King James Version

See also
 Nus (disambiguation)
 Gnu, GNU
 New (disambiguation)