WU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wu mean? 

• WU (noun)
  The noun WU has 1 sense:

1. a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

  Familiarity information: WU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Shanghai dialect; Wu; Wu dialect

Hypernyms ("Wu" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

 Context examples 

“This giant leap is a decisive move for our exploration of space and the conquering of the universe,” Wu Weiren said.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

“It’s a small step for the rover, but one giant leap for the Chinese nation,’’ Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the Lunar Exploration Project, said on state broadcaster CCTV, adapting American astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong’s famous message “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” when he stepped onto the lunar surface July 20, 1969.###!!!###

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)