Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳; simplified Chinese: 吴; pinyin: Wú) refers to a region in China centered on Lake Tai in Jiangnan (the region south of the Yangtze...
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Wu (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Middle Chinese *ŋuo < Eastern Han Chinese: *ŋuɑ), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a dynastic state of...
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south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu. Speakers of various Wu languages sometimes labelled their mother tongue as Shanghainese...
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Look up WU, Wu, wu, or wu- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wu may refer to: Wu (region) (吳; Wú), a region roughly corresponding to the territory of...
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Wu (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Old Chinese: *ŋʷˤa) was a state during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period, outside the Zhou cultural...
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Jiangnan (redirect from Jiangnan region)
wealth in trade and very high human development. Most people of the region speak Wu Chinese dialects as their native languages. The name Jiangnan is the...
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Gou Wu tribes around Wuxi on the lower Yangtze, generally known as the Wu region. The title wang is written identically in Chinese, but it is common in...
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Wu (吳), also referred to as Huainan (淮南), Hongnong (弘農), Southern Wu (南吳), or Yang Wu (楊吳), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms...
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Shanghai (category Wu (region))
by the government. Since the 1990s, many migrants outside of the Wu-speaking region have come to Shanghai for education and jobs. They often cannot speak...
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Zhejiang (category Wu (region))
Kingdom of Wu. Despite the removal of their court from Kuaiji to Jianye (present-day Nanjing) and they continued development of the region and benefitted...
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and Warring States periods Wu (region), also known as Wuyue, a Chinese region in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces Speakers of Wu Chinese, also known as Wuyue...
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Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was Empress of China from 660 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from...
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the Wuyue region has been home to several neolithic cultures such as the Hemudu culture, Majiabang culture and the Liangzhu culture. Both Wu and Yue were...
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Jiangzhe may refer to: Wu (region) or Jiangzhe (江浙), a region in the Jiangnan area Jiangzhe people, often synonymous with Wu Chinese-speaking people Jiangzhe...
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Han Chinese subgroups (section Wu-speaking groups)
them outside of Jiangnan region usually speak variants of Taihu Wu dialects. Wu Chinese is spoken chiefly in the Wu region. Jiangnanese people consist...
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Go-on (呉音, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo.oɴ], "sounds from the Wu region") are one of the several possible ways of reading Japanese kanji. They are based...
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Because of Love (1995) Come Back Home (1996) Hope (1997) Hui, Ann, Eighteen Springs (半生緣) 1997 All Region, retrieved 2021-06-09 Chiel-lien Wu at IMDb...
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Wu-Tang Forever is the second studio album by the American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released June 3, 1997, by Loud and RCA Records in the United States...
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Michelle Wu (Chinese: 吳弭; born January 14, 1985) is an American politician serving as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, since 2021. The daughter of Taiwanese...
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Tongli (category Pages with Wu Chinese IPA)
"Venice of the East". The place retains many of the features of an ancient Wu region town. Tongli is half an hour away from Suzhou city and about two hours...
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Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87 BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. His reign...
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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is the debut studio album by the American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released on November 9, 1993, by Loud Records and...
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Naomi Wu, also known as Sexy Cyborg (simplified Chinese: 机械妖姬; traditional Chinese: 機械妖姬; pinyin: Jīxiè Yāojī; lit. 'Machinery Enchantress'), is a Chinese...
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Nong region. She was daughter, niece, and sister to several ministers and a close relation of the imperial family. By her, Wu had three daughters: Wu Shun...
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Shanyue (category Wu (region))
family established a strong local government in Jiangdong. The Kingdom of Wu, founded by Sun Quan, launched numerous campaigns against the Shanyue, but...
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consonants. However these districts used to be the region of the Wu culture, so there are many features of Wu Chinese in these vernaculars, especially the vernacular...
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at wiping out opposing forces in Jing Province and the Jiangdong (or Wu) region. In the meantime, Liu Bei evacuated Xinye County and led his followers...
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the Eastern Han dynasty forced him to flee south to the Jiangdong (or Wu) region for shelter. In Jiangdong, Zhang Zhao became an adviser to the rising...
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preferred to use the momentum from his victories to attack the Jiangdong (or Wu) region next. Lu Su, an adviser to the Jiangdong warlord Sun Quan, was originally...
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