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Tu

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname from Chinese.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of TuesdayAbbreviation of Tuesday.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese. Most likely from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 屠 (Tú) or 涂 (Tú).

Forms

plural
Tus
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).