Wu

[ woo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 222–80.
a Chinese language having several dialects, spoken widely in Anhwei, Chekiang, and Kiangsu provinces and including the dialect of Shanghai.

/ wuː /

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

/ wuː /

/ wo̅o̅ /

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.

Be all th' saints in glory I'll larrup th' head off iv yez—or I w'u'd if I wasn't afraid ye'd buck me onto the roof.

W'u'd he be doin' us a bad turn who's mendin' the housen an' makin' us comf'table?

What w'u'd ye be advisin' me t' feed it fer a regular diet now?'

The section of the boiler, grate, and flues, is represented at W U.

You couldn't read that pome without cryin',—why, that pome w'u'd hev brought a dew out on the desert uv Sary.

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