# PU

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On Wikipedia, "PU" may refer to Protected Userpage.

**PU**, **Pu**, or **pu** may refer to:

## Organizations

### Political parties

- [Ummah Party (Indonesia)](/source/Ummah_Party_(Indonesia)) (*Partai Ummat*), a political party in Indonesia

## People and names

- [Pu (Chinese surname)](/source/Pu_(Chinese_surname)), shared by several people
- [Pu (Indian given name)](/source/Pu_(Indian_given_name)), shared by several people
- [Pu Ling-en](/source/Pu_Ling-en) (born 1936), a pen name of British poet J.H. Prynne
- [Pu Yen](/source/Pu_Yen) (1900–2008), Thai centenarian who lived to an age of 108
- [Yingluck Shinawatra](/source/Yingluck_Shinawatra) (born 1967), nicknamed Pu, Thai businesswoman and politician

## Places

- [Pu County](/source/Pu_County), in Shanxi, China
- [Guinea-Bissau](/source/Guinea-Bissau), a country in West Africa (NATO country code PU)
- [Province of Pesaro and Urbino](/source/Province_of_Pesaro_and_Urbino), a province in the Marche region of Italy
- [Punjab, India](/source/Punjab,_India), a state in northern India (postal code PU)

## Universities

### In India

- [Panjab University, Chandigarh](/source/Panjab_University,_Chandigarh), a university in India
- [Patna University](/source/Patna_University), a university in Bihar, India
- [Pondicherry University](/source/Pondicherry_University), a central university in Puducherry, India

### In the United States

- [Parker University](/source/Parker_University), a university in Dallas, Texas, United States
- [Point University](/source/Point_University), a university in West Point, Georgia, United States
- [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University), a university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- [Purdue University](/source/Purdue_University), a university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

### In other countries

- [Purbanchal University](/source/Purbanchal_University), a university in Biratnagar, Nepal
- [University of the Punjab](/source/University_of_the_Punjab), a public university in Lahore, Pakistan
- [University of the Punjab, Gujranwala](/source/University_of_the_Punjab,_Gujranwala), a public university in Gujranwala, Pakistan
- [University of Plovdiv](/source/University_of_Plovdiv), a public university in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- [Prešov University](/source/Pre%C5%A1ov_University), a public university in Prešov, Slovakia
- [Providence University](/source/Providence_University), a university in Taichung, Taiwan

## Science and technology

- [Plutonium](/source/Plutonium), symbol Pu, a chemical element
- [Processing unit](/source/Processing_unit), an electronic circuit that performs operations on some external data source
- [Polyurethane](/source/Polyurethane), a common type of plastic
- pu, a label in the [per-unit system](/source/Per-unit_system) of power systems analysis
- [PU learning](/source/PU_learning), a collection of semisupervised techniques in machine learning
- [PU leather](/source/PU_leather) or artificial leather, a material made with polyurethane
- [PU resistor](/source/PU_resistor), a pull-up resistor
- [PU scope](/source/PU_scope), a sniper scope of Soviet origin
- [Power unit](/source/Power_unit), component that powers a machine, a vehicle, or a train. Almost equivalent to an engine.

## Other uses

- [Pu (Taoism)](/source/Pu_(Taoism)), early Taoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity
- PU, an abbreviation for Proto-Ukrainian, an aspect of the [Old East Slavic](/source/Old_East_Slavic) language
- pu, the [Toki Pona](/source/Toki_Pona) name for the book *Toki Pona: The Language of Good*
- "Pu", a song by Arca from *[Kick IIIII](/source/Kick_IIIII)*
- pū, the [Charonia tritonis](/source/Charonia_tritonis)
- PU, an abbreviation of *[Power Unlimited](/source/Power_Unlimited)*, a Dutch video games magazine

## See also

- [Poo (disambiguation)](/source/Poo_(disambiguation))
- [Peugh (disambiguation)](/source/Peugh_(disambiguation))
- [Pue (disambiguation)](/source/Pue_(disambiguation))
- [Pew (disambiguation)](/source/Pew_(disambiguation))
- [Pugh (disambiguation)](/source/Pugh_(disambiguation))
- [Pickup (disambiguation)](/source/Pickup_(disambiguation))
- [Pull up (disambiguation)](/source/Pull_up_(disambiguation))

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