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Wu (อู) (TV series)
Wu (อู), or WU The Series, is a GMMTV Thai mystery-fantasy series (9 episodes, 5 May–30 June 2026, GMM25, Viu) directed by Waasuthep Ketpetch, starring Sky Wongravee as Niran and Nani Hirunkit as Pete, who fight yao energy.
Wu and Yue Spring and Autumn Annals
The Wu and Yue Spring and Autumn Annals (Wuyue Chunqiu, 吴越春秋) is an Eastern Han historical work by Zhao Ye on the rival states of Wu and Yue.
Wu Assassins
Wu Assassins is a 2019 Netflix action-crime series, 10 episodes, starring Iko Uwais as chef Kai Jin, the Wu Assassin recovering the five Wu Xing powers from criminals in San Francisco Chinatown; canceled after one season, continued in Fistful of Vengeance.
Wu Bin (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wu Bin (吴彬) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Nanning, Guangxi, founder and CEO of Qunjielong (群接龙), a WeChat mini-program supplying group-buying tools to community sellers.
Wu Brothers' Sichuan Army
The Wu Brothers' Sichuan Army (吴家军) was the Southern Song field army built by Wu Jie and Wu Lin on the Sichuan-Shaanxi frontier, blocking Jin invasions for a generation.
Wu Changshuo
Wu Changshuo (1844–1927) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet of the late Qing and early Republican period, the leading figure of the later Shanghai school.
Wu Changshuo's stone-bronze flower style
Wu Changshuo's stone-bronze flower style (金石写意花鸟) is a Chinese great freehand flower painting mode created by Wu Changshuo (1844–1927), which carried Stone Drum seal-script brushwork into painting and reshaped twentieth-century flower painting.
Wu Chen
Wu Chen (武臣) was a general under Chen Sheng who conquered the Zhao region and proclaimed himself King of Zhao at Handan, where he was killed by Li Liang.
Wu Cheng
Wu Cheng (吴澄, 1249–1333) was a Yuan dynasty Confucian scholar and educator from Chongren, Jiangxi, remembered for his commentaries on the classics and academy teaching reform.
Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en (吴承恩, c. 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong) was a Ming-dynasty novelist and minor official from Huai'an, Jiangsu, conventionally credited as the author of Journey to the West.
Wu Chengsi
Wu Chengsi (武承嗣) was a Tang courtier, nephew of Empress Wu Zetian, who served as her chancellor and pushed the Wu regime's replacement of the Tang imperial house.
Wu Chinese
Wu Chinese (吴语, ISO wuu) is a major Sinitic language group of the lower Yangtze (Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang), defined by a three-way stop contrast, second-largest speaker population in China, mutually unintelligible with Mandarin and Yue, and declining among youth.
Wu Chuan-fu
Wu Chuan-fu (吴传福) is a Taiwanese businessman who founded PROXENE TOOLS, a Taichung maker of adjustable wrenches, in 1984 and serves as its general manager.
Wu Chun (吴尊)
Wu Chun, born Goh Kiat Chun (吳吉尊), is a Bruneian actor, singer, and model who debuted in Taiwan in 2005 as a member of the Mandopop boy group Fahrenheit.
Wu Commandery Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang Clans
The Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang clans of Wu Commandery were gentry families of the Three Wu region who rose under the Sun regime of Eastern Wu.
Wu Dacheng
Wu Dacheng (吴大澂) was a Qing dynasty official, diplomat, and epigrapher who recovered territory near Hunchun from Russia in 1886 and closed the breached Yellow River dike at Zhengzhou.
Wu Dajing
Wu Dajing (武大靖), Chinese short track speed skater born 1994 in Jiamusi; first Chinese man to win Olympic short track gold (500 m, Pyeongchang 2018, WR 39.584) and 2022 mixed relay champion; retired January 2026, named China head coach August 2026.
Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (吴道子, 680–759) was a Tang dynasty painter honored by later professional artists as the "Sage of Painting"; no authentic work by him survives today.
Wu Ding (武丁)
Wu Ding (武丁) was the 23rd Shang king (fl. ca. 1200 BCE, capital at Anyang), remembered as the "Wu Ding restoration" ruler whose reign produced the earliest oracle bone inscriptions, wars against the Tu, Gong, Qiang, and Ba polities, and the famous consort-general Fu Hao.
Wu Ding's campaign against the Guifang
Wu Ding's campaign against the Guifang (武丁伐鬼方) was the war in which the Shang king Wu Ding, called Gaozong, conquered the northwestern Guifang in three years, as the Zhouyi records.
Wu experiment
The Wu experiment was a 1956–1957 nuclear physics experiment led by Chien-Shiung Wu that showed parity, the mirror symmetry of physical laws, is violated in beta decay.
Wu Family Shrines
The Wu Family Shrines (武氏祠), also called the Wu Family Cemetery Stone Carvings, are Eastern Han stone shrines and reliefs in Jiaxiang County, Shandong, begun in 147 CE.
Wu Family Shrines Reliefs
The Wu Family Shrines reliefs (武氏祠画像石) are Eastern Han stone carvings from ancestral shrines in Jiaxiang County, Shandong, China, made in the late 2nd century CE.
Wu Gang
Wu Gang (武钢) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Goldwind, the Urumqi-headquartered wind turbine manufacturer he has chaired since 2002, ranked the world's largest turbine supplier through 2025.
Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中, 1919–2010) was a Chinese painter and art educator, born in Yixing, Jiangsu and trained in Paris, who fused Western oil painting with Chinese ink aesthetics.
Wu Han (Chinese historian and Beijing deputy mayor)
Wu Han (吴晗, 1909–1969) was a Chinese historian of the Ming dynasty who taught at Tsinghua University and served as deputy mayor of Beijing from 1949.
Wu Han (Eastern Han general)
Wu Han (吴汉) was an Eastern Han general who rose from poverty to serve Emperor Guangwu as Grand Marshal and conquered the Shu warlord Gongsun Shu.
Wu Hanjie
Wu Hanjie (吴汉杰) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Fujian Province who founded the sportswear company Hongxing Erke in 2000 and chaired it until handing it to his sons in 2006.
Wu Hufan
Wu Hufan (吴湖帆, 1894–1968) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur based in Suzhou and Shanghai, a central figure in 20th-century art collecting and authentication whose studio Meijing Shuwu trained notable artists.
Wu Jian
Wu Jian (吴剑) is a Chinese business executive who co-founded the online travel company Tongcheng in Suzhou in 2002, serving as its long-time chief operating officer.