lu

1. archaicuncountableArchaic form of loo (“card game”).

present singular third person lus · participle present luing · participle past lued · past lued

1. archaicArchaic form of loo (“beat at card game”).

plural lus

1. historicaluncountableusuallySynonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.

   Synonyms: route or circuit

1. A diminutive of the female given name Lucy and related names.

   "Why?" said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?" "So you've been hiding, have you?" Peter said. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed!

   1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Fontana Lions, published 1980, →ISBN, page 27

plural Lus

1. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
   1. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 呂／吕 (Lǚ).

      2 more examples

      Lu Yan [translating 呂巖 /吕岩] (A.D. 798–?), courtesy name Dongbin, literary name Chunyangzi. According to tradition, Luzu [translating 呂祖 /吕祖 (Lǚzǔ)] was from Jingzhao [translating 京兆 (Jīngzhào)] Prefecture, in which Changan, the Tang Dynasty (618–908) capital, was situated; however, he is also reputed to be from Hezhong [translating 河中 (Hézhōng)] Prefecture, the present-day Yongji [translating 永濟 /永济 (Yǒngjì)] District of Shanxi.

      1993, “Notes”, in Thomas L. Kennedy, transl., Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151

      As editor-in-chief of the pro-communist Kuangming News (光明報), Lu He-ruo (呂赫若) became a wanted man after the newspaper was raided by the authorities in August 1949. While many of his friends were arrested and executed, he managed to elude capture by hiding in the mountains of today’s New Taipei City’s Shihding District (石碇). Lu never made it out of the mountains, and his death remained a mystery for decades.

      2023 March 12, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: A multi-talented dissident”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2023, Features, page 13

   2. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 盧／卢 (Lú).
   3. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 陸／陆 (Lù).
   4. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 魯／鲁 (Lǔ).
   5. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 路 (Lù).
   6. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 蘆／芦 (Lú).
   7. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 祿／禄 (Lù).
   8. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 逯 (Lù).
   9. countableA Chinese surname from Mandarin from 鹿 (Lù).

plural Lus

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

alternative Loo · alternative Lou · alternative Louh

1. 魯國／鲁国 (Lǔguó); An ancient vassal state of China that existed approximately between 1042–249 BC.

1. Synonym of Luren (“a Chinese language”).

   Synonyms: Luren

1. UKabbreviationinitialismrail transportInitialism of London Underground.
2. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Liberty Union Party.
3. PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of La Union: a province of the Ilocos Region, Philippines.

plural LUs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of livestock unit.

1. linear algebraA matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.