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. WuHarry1937MChinesePOLITICS: human-rights campaigner 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

/ 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.

Example Sentences

And then DJ Scratch came up to me at the Wu show in Vegas and was like, “Yo, I chopped up three of your joints already” and I was like, “Have fun.”

From Los Angeles Times

"Avoiding the fate of the Soviet Union has long been a key concern for China's leaders," said Alfred Wu, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

From BBC

In an emailed statement after the hearing, Corrigan praised Wu for the sentence which she said is “significant but incorporates mental health treatment.”

From Los Angeles Times

Wu declared a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

From Los Angeles Times

Times special correspondent Xin-yun Wu in Taipei contributed to this report.

From Los Angeles Times