xu

Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sou.

• IPA^(key): /suː/
• Rhymes: -uː

xu (plural xu or (rare) xus)

1. A minor unit of currency in Vietnam, now little-used, forming a hundredth of a dong.

• & ux., UX

xu

1. Romanization of 𐍇𐌿

• hú (Nigeria)

From Proto-Gbe *χʷú. Cognates include Fon xú, Saxwe Gbe xwyá, Adja xú, Ayizo xu

• IPA^(key): /xú/

xú (Benin)

1. to dry

xu (xu⁵ / xu⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄒㄩ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓿.

xu

1. Nonstandard spelling of xū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of xú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of xǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of xù.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Pashto [script needed] (xo).

• IPA^(key): /xu/

xu (discourse, Perso-Arabic spelling خوۡ)

1. but
2. however
3. although

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

xu

1. future tense marker

   Làpi xu pè.

   He will come again.

   Alàpa xu nëmanitu sapan.

   Tomorrow I will make sapan.

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “xu”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

From French sou.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [su˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [sʊw˧˧]

xu

1. xu (1/100 of a dong); cent; penny