U, or u, is the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet.
U may also refer to:
Science
Mathematics
Chemistry
- Uranium, symbol U, a chemical element
- u, the Dalton (unit), a unified atomic mass unit to express atomic and molecular masses
Astronomy
Computing
- <code><nowiki><u></nowiki></code>, a HTML element denoting underlined text: see underscore#HTML <u> and CSS
- 'U' (or sometimes RU) is a standard height unit of measure in rack units, with each U equal to
- U, universal Turing machine
- The prefix (then a number) is used to indicate a codepoint as being in the Unicode character encoding system (to distinguish it from other encoding systems). For example, the codepoints for the letters and are given formally as and .
Biology
Other scientific uses
- U, a common notation for potential energy
- U, the middle of an edge joining a hexagonal and a square face of the Brillouin zone of a face-centered cubic lattice, in solid-state physics
- U, representing a 10x10x10cm CubeSat
- U, one of the two subcarrier-modulated color-difference channels in the YUV colorspace, in video
- U, the recommended symbol for a system's internal energy, in thermodynamics
- U, units, any of various standard units of biological activity, such as insulin units, enzyme units, or penicillin units
- U, the enzyme unit
- International units, for which the symbol U is sometimes used
- U, the abbreviation for selenocysteine, an uncommon amino acid containing selenium
- u, the alternative abbreviation for the SI prefix "micro-" when the Greek letter mu (ü) is not available
- U or U-value, the symbol for the overall heat transfer coefficient or thermal transmittance
- Understeer gradient
Transportation
Music
- âÂÂuâÂÂ, the first opera in the Klingon language
- U (Incredible String Band album), 1970
- U (NiziU album), 2021
- U (Tourist album), 2016 album by Tourist
- U (Underscores album), 2026
- "U" (Kendrick Lamar song), 2015
- "U" (Super Junior song), 2006
- "U", a song by KNK from Remain
- "U", a song by Pearl Jam on their album Lost Dogs
- "U", a song by Stray Kids on their mixtape Hop
- "U", a song by S.E.S., released in 2002
- "U", an album by The Enid, released in 2019
- "U", a song by Treasure, released in 2022
People
Places
Language
- /u/, the close back rounded vowel in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- U language, a language spoken by about 40,000 people in the Yunnan Province of China
- U (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- U (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script
- U (kana), a Japanese syllabary symbol
- U and non-U English, sociolectal varieties of British English, i.e. "upper-class"
- ÃÂ, glyph for the Armenian letter se
- u, an abbreviation for "you" in computer chats
- U-, a prefix used for German submarines during World War II
- U, a title roughly equal to "Mister" in Burmese
- The Greek letter ü
Film and television episodes
- U (film), a 2006 French animated feature film directed by Serge Elissalde and Grégoire Solotareff
- The U (film), a 2009 documentary about the Miami Hurricanes football team
- U, the production code for the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Myth Makers
Media
- U (Universal), a media content rating used in the following countries:
- United Kingdom, issued by the British Board of Film Classification
- India, issued by the Central Board of Film Certification
- Malaysia, issued by the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia
- France, documented at Censorship in France
- India, Latvia, Malta, Mauritius and Slovakia, documented at Motion picture content rating system and Television content rating system
- U (TV channel), a former television channel in New Zealand
- Channel U (Singaporean TV channel), a Singaporean Chinese-language television channel
- The American Spanish-language network Univisión has the U logo
- U (streaming service), (formerly UKTV Play) a free British streaming service owned by UKTV
Other uses
- University, commonly abbreviated "U"
- U Mobile, Malaysian mobile phone and data service provider
- U-bend, a U-shaped plumbing trap
- U-bolt, a U-shaped metal fastener
- âÂÂ, (U inside a circle), hechsher or kosher certification by the Orthodox Union
- U, =U= or -U-, symbol for UstaÃ
¡e Croatian movement
- Nickname for football teams:
- La U or Universitario de Deportes, Peru
- Universitatea Cluj, Romania
- U, the color blue in '
- Wii U, the sixth Nintendo video game home console, released in 2012
- Uniform, the military time zone code for UTCâÂÂ08:00
- "U" Is for Undertow, the twenty-first novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" mystery series, published in 2009
- Underscore, originally invoked in HTML using <nowiki><u></nowiki>
- U, a brand of menstrual hygiene products by Kotex
- U, the logo for Unilever
See also