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Fu on the Goddess

Fu on the Goddess (Shennü fu, 神女赋) is a Chinese rhapsody attributed to Song Yu describing a Chu king's dream encounter with the goddess of Mount Wu.

Fu on the Great Man

Fu on the Great Man (Daren fu, 大人赋) is a sao-style rhapsody by Western Han poet Sima Xiangru, written for Emperor Wu as a veiled admonition against seeking immortality.

Fu on the Imperial Park

Fu on the Imperial Park (Shanglin fu) is a monumental rhapsody by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru, written for Emperor Wu, celebrating the Shanglin imperial hunting park.

Fu on the Owl

Fu on the Owl (鵩鳥賦) is a short fu poem by the Han writer Jia Yi, written in Changsha after an owl, a death omen, flew into his lodgings.

Fu on the Wind

Fu on the Wind (Feng fu, 风赋) is a Chinese rhapsody attributed to Song Yu, contrasting a king's pleasant wind with the misery of the common people.

FU Orionis

FU Orionis (FU Ori) is a young variable star in Orion that brightened by about 6 magnitudes in 1936 and gave its name to the FU Orionis class of eruptive stars.

FU Orionis star

A FU Orionis star is a young pre-main-sequence star that brightens dramatically when gas from its disk accretes in a long outburst, like FU Orionis in 1936.

Fu Rong Xing Sheng

Fu Rong Xing Sheng (芙蓉兴盛) is a Hunan-based convenience-supermarket chain founded in 2001 by Yue Lihua, operating over 20,000 franchised community stores and best known as the incubator of Xingsheng Youxuan.

Fu Sheng

Fu Sheng (伏生) was a Qin dynasty scholar from Jinan who hid the Shangshu in a wall and transmitted the surviving text to the early Han court.

Fu Sinian

Fu Sinian (傅斯年, 1896–1950) was a Chinese historian and educator who founded the Institute of History and Philology, served as acting president of Peking University, and died as president of National Taiwan University in 1950.

FU study

FU study (Follow-up Visit of High Risk Infants, NCT00009633): NICHD Neonatal Research Network multi-center cohort following surviving extremely low birth-weight infants with neurodevelopmental assessments at 22-26 months corrected age to identify maternal and neonatal risk factors.

FU Tau

FU Tau is a pair of young brown dwarfs (M7.25 and M9.25, about 1 Myr old) 800 AU apart in the Barnard 215 dark cloud, Taurus; its secondary is also cataloged as the imaged exoplanet FU Tau b.

Fu Xin

Fu Xin (富欣, Caroline Fu) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Partner at HongShan, formerly Sequoia Capital China, who leads industrial and energy investing after a senior career in the traditional energy sector.

Fu Yanqing

Fu Yanqing (符彦卿) was a Chinese general of the tenth century who crushed a Khitan army at Yangcheng in 945 and became the father-in-law of two emperors.

Fu Yaoyu

Fu Yaoyu (傅尧俞), courtesy name Qinzhi, was a Northern Song scholar-official, 1024 to 1091, who served four emperors, opposed Wang Anshi's New Policies, and became Zhongshu Shilang in 1089.

Fu Yi

Fu Yi (傅毅) was an Eastern Han dynasty writer and official from Maoling who collated the imperial archives with Ban Gu and left 28 pieces of writing.

Fu Youde

Fu Youde (傅友德) was a Ming dynasty general from Suzhou who led the conquests of Shu and Yunnan, was enfeoffed Ying Guogong, and died by imperial order in 1394.

Fu Yun Lai Aquarium

Fu Yun Lai Aquarium is an aquarium shop and public aquarium at 68, Jalan Besar, Gunung Rapat, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, selling guppies, goldfish, aquarium supplies, pet food, and fishing bait, with phone +60 16-593 7512.

Fu Zhan

Fu Zhan (伏湛), courtesy name Huigong, was an Eastern Han scholar-official and ninth-generation descendant of the classicist Fu Sheng who served as Grand Commandant under Emperor Guangwu.

Fu Zhengjun

Fu Zhengjun (傅政军, born 1978 in Jinhua, Zhejiang) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded 9158 and leads its Hong Kong-listed parent, Tian Ge Interactive.

Fu Zuoyi

Fu Zuoyi was a Chinese general and Nationalist commander who held Zhuozhou in 1928, resisted Japan, surrendered Beiping peacefully in 1949, and later served as Minister of Water Resources.

Fu-Go balloon bomb

Fu-Go (fūsen bakudan) was a Japanese balloon bomb weapon of World War II; about 9,300 were launched from November 1944, causing six deaths at Bly, Oregon.

Fu‐Gen Wu

Fu-Gen Wu (吴富根, born 1983) is a Chinese biomedical engineer and full professor at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for work on polyphenol-containing nanoparticles and hydrogel-based drug delivery.

Fua Haripitak

Fua Haripitak (เฟื้อ หริพิทักษ์, 1910–1993) was a Thai painter known for pioneering modern Thai painting with Impressionist and Cubist styles and for conserving Wat Rakhang's temple murals.

Fuad al-Takarli

Fuad al-Takarli (فؤاد التكرلي; 1927–2008) was an Iraqi novelist, short-story writer, and judge, counted among the founders of the modern classic Iraqi novel; his best-known work is Al-Raj' al-Ba'id (1980).

Fuad I of Egypt

Fuad I (Ahmed Fuad, 1868–1936), ninth ruler of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty: Sultan 1917, first King of Egypt 1922–1936, enacted the 1923 and 1930 constitutions, fought the Wafd, and claimed the caliphate in 1924.

Fuad II of Egypt

Fuad II, also known as Ahmed Fuad II, was the last king of Egypt, reigning as an infant from 1952 to 1953 before Egypt became a republic.

Fuad Masum (فواد معصوم)

Fuad Masum (فواد معصوم), born 1938 in Koya, is a Kurdish Iraqi politician, PUK co-founder, first Kurdistan Region prime minister, and President of Iraq 2014–2018 who nominated Haider al-Abadi as prime minister in 2014.

Fuad Shukr (فؤاد شكر)

Fuad Shukr (فؤاد شكر), alias Al-Hajj Mohsin, was a founding Hezbollah commander, Jihad Council member and head of its Strategic Unit; US-designated SDGT with a $5m bounty, killed in Israel's 30 July 2024 strike on Haret Hreik, Beirut.

Fuanunuiava

Fuanunuiava, also recorded as Fatafehi Fuanunuiava, was a Tongan royal, son of Tu'i Tonga Paulaho and the 38th holder of the Tu'i Tonga title in the late 1700s.