Wu

[ woo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 222–80.
a Chinese language having several dialects, spoken widely in Anhwei, Chekiang, and Kiangsu provinces and including the dialect of Shanghai.

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WuHarry1937MChinesePOLITICS: human-rights campaigner Harry, real name Wu Hongda. born 1937, Chinese dissident and human-rights campaigner, a US citizen from 1994: held in labour camps (1960–79); exiled to the US in 1985 but returned secretly to document forced labour in Chinese prisons

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noun

a group of dialects of Chinese spoken around the Yangtze delta

Chinese-born American physicist. Research with her colleagues on electron emission in the decay of radioactive elements showed that parity symmetry, long thought to hold for all physical laws, is in fact violated; the decay processes displayed odd parity, essentially entailing that nature distinguishes between right-handed and left-handed processes.

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Abby Wu was just 14 when she had cosmetic surgery for the first time.

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The winner, chosen from a shortlist of 11 photographers, was Daniel Dian-Ji Wu, Taiwan, 16 years old, for his image of a skateboarder doing a trick, silhouetted against a sunset in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.

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Wu Changchun added that many of the South East Asian countries that have been hit with steep tariffs are "exactly where many Chinese businesses have relocated", such as Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Wu said the new ownership would be a positive step for the game, which he called his “life’s work.”

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Sabrina Wu, a teacher at New Channel, an English school and education consultancy in Beijing, said Hong Kong and Singapore schools are growing in popularity because of their proximity to China.

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