Etymology

hu

H4U1

Today it means: they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she. Full definition →

Chinese 胡
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

hu · pronoun1

Clipping of human, first offered for usage by Mikhail Epstein, professor of cultural theory at Emory University (in 2003).

Hu · proper noun2

  1. Chinese · derived from胡
  2. English todayHu

From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.

Hu · proper noun3

  1. Egyptian · derived fromḥwt-sḫm
  2. Arabic · derived fromهُو
  3. English todayHu

From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.