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UK underground rap
UK underground rap: rap made in Britain outside major-label distribution, spanning 1980s Britcore, 2010s DIY labels High Focus and Blah, and the 2023-2025 SoundCloud wave of fakemink, EsDeeKid, and Jim Legxacy, distinct from grime and drill.
Uketsu (雨穴)
Uketsu (雨穴), aka the Strange series author: masked Japanese horror-mystery writer and YouTuber, debut Hen na ie (2021), books in 36 languages, nearly 8 million copies, CWA Dagger-shortlisted Strange Pictures.
Ukhan
Ukhan (उखाण, plural ukhane) is a short rhyming Marathi folk couplet, traditionally recited by married women at weddings and festivals, that weaves the husband's name into verse.
Ukhtanes
Ukhtanes (Ուխտանես), also Ukhtanes Sebastatsi, ca. 935–1000, was an Armenian historian and bishop of Sebastia who wrote a three-part History of Armenia around 980–982.
Uki-e
Uki-e (浮絵, "floating pictures"), also called kubomi-e, are Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints that used Western one-point linear perspective to give scenes exaggerated depth, pioneered by Okumura Masanobu.
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵)
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is Edo-period Japanese art of commoner life, both paintings and woodblock prints made by publisher, designer, carver, and printer, from Moronobu through Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige to Meiji artists, with major influence on European Japonisme.
Ukiyo-e publishing
Ukiyo-e publishing was the Edo-period Japanese commercial system in which a publisher (hanmoto) financed multicolor woodblock prints by artist, carver, and printer, working under shogunal censorship marked by approval seals.
Ukiyoburo
Ukiyoburo (浮世風呂) is a Japanese comic novel (kokkeibon) by the Edo-period writer Shikitei Sanba, published in four parts between 1809 and 1813, which portrays everyday Edo life through the conversations of bathers at a public bathhouse.
Ukiyodoko
Ukiyodoko (浮世床) is a Japanese comic fiction work (kokkeibon) by Shikitei Sanba, published in Edo from 1813 to 1823, depicting the conversations of Edo commoners at a barber's shop.
Ukiyozōshi
Ukiyozōshi (浮世草子) is a genre of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction depicting townspeople's lives and romances, begun by Ihara Saikaku in 1682 and centered in Osaka and Kyoto.
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest: participant since its 2003 debut in Riga (14th place), three-time winner (Ruslana 2004, Jamala 2016, Kalush Orchestra 2022), entries chosen via Vidbir, represented in Vienna 2026 by LELÉKA's 'Ridnym', 9th with 221 points.
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Ukraine at Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna: singer LELÉKA with "Ridnym" (Рідним), winner of Vidbir 2026; 6th in semi-final 2, 9th in the grand final with 221 points; Bulgaria's DARA won.
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Ukraine at Junior Eurovision 2026 (Malta, 24 October): 11-year-old Erika Kolesnichenko sings "NOT a Lullaby" (Ne kolyskova) by Svitlana Tarabarova, Ukraine's 21st entry, chosen via Junior Vidbir on a public-vote tie-break.
Ukrainian cuisine
Ukrainian cuisine (українська кухня): the national culinary tradition of Ukraine, known for borscht (UNESCO-listed, 70+ variants), varenyky, salo, and holubtsi, with strong regional traditions shaped by Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, and Crimean Tatar influences.
Ukrainian folk song
Ukrainian folk song (українська народна пісня) is the traditional orally transmitted song of the Ukrainian people, one of the oldest forms of Ukrainian folklore, known for its rich polyphony and spanning ritual, historical, and lyrical genres.
Ukrainian futurism
Ukrainian futurism (ukraïns'kyi futuryzm) was an avant-garde movement in Ukrainian literature and art, founded by Mykhail' Semenko in 1914 and suppressed in the early 1930s.
Ukrainian literary Baroque
Ukrainian literary Baroque (Українське літературне бароко) is the literature produced in Ukrainian lands from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth century in the ornate Baroque style.
Ukrainian modernism
Ukrainian modernism (український модернізм) was the modernist movement in Ukrainian art, literature, and theater from about 1890 to the early 1930s, ended by Stalinist repression.
Ukrainian national clothing
Ukrainian national clothing (український народний костюм) is the traditional ensemble dress of Ukrainians, centered on the embroidered vyshyvanka shirt, with regional complexes (Polissia, Podillia, Carpathians, Middle Dnipro, Slobozhanshchyna, South), roots traced to Kyivan Rus, and modern status as an identity symbol owned by 67% of Ukrainians.
Ukrainian polemical literature
Ukrainian polemical literature (полемічна література) is the body of publicistic writings on religious and church questions produced in the Ukrainian lands from the late 16th to the 17th century.
Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet)
Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet) is the Ukrainian-language popular-music scene that took shape after independence in the 1990s, launched by the 1989 Chervona Ruta festival and defined by Ruslana's 2004 Eurovision win.
Ukrainian postmodernism
Ukrainian postmodernism (український постмодернізм) is the current in Ukrainian literature that emerged in the mid-1980s with the group Bu-Ba-Bu of Yuri Andrukhovych, Oleksandr Irvanets, and Viktor Neborak.
Ukrainian realism
Ukrainian realism is the realist movement in Ukrainian literature and art of the second half of the 19th century, with Taras Shevchenko as its founder and writers including Ivan Nechui-Levytsky, Panas Myrny, and Ivan Franko.
Ukrainian romanticism
Ukrainian romanticism (український романтизм) was a literary movement of the 1810s to 1860s, centered first at Kharkiv University, that celebrated the Cossack past and folk song while shaping a modern Ukrainian literature.
Ukrainian Russian-language literature
Ukrainian Russian-language literature is the body of writing in Russian by authors from Ukraine, including Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, whose boundaries remain politically contested.
Ukrainian Soviet literature
Ukrainian Soviet literature was the Ukrainian-language writing produced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from the early 1920s until 1991, including the experimental 1920s Executed Renaissance, largely destroyed by Stalin's purges of the 1930s.
Ukrainian Yiddish literature
Ukrainian Yiddish literature is the body of Yiddish-language writing produced in present-day Ukraine, using the southeastern Yiddish dialect and flowering in the 1860s and under early Soviet rule.
Ukrainska Khata
Ukrainska Khata (Українська хата, "The Ukrainian Hut") was a monthly literary and political journal published in Kyiv from 1909 to 1914 under editor Pavlo Bohatsky.
Uku Masing
Uku Masing (born Hugo Albert Masing, 1909–1985) was an Estonian poet, theologian, and philologist who hid his Jewish student during the Nazi occupation, earning recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
Ukulele
Ukulele (ʻukulele, "jumping flea"): small four-string Hawaiian plucked lute developed in the 1880s by Madeiran makers Nunes, Dias, and Espírito Santo; re-entrant GCEA tuning; popularized by Kalākaua and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.