# Thu

Pronunciation: say "THURZ-day" US /ˈθɜɹzˌdeɪ/, UK /ˈθɜːzdeɪ/

## Noun

1. Abbreviation of Thursday. — Abbreviation of Thursday.
   - Simple: Abbreviation of Thursday. Use this short form on calendars and schedules.
   - _The flight departs Thu at six in the morning from the main terminal._
   - _Her planner had "dentist, Thu, 3 p.m." scrawled in the margin._

## Other meanings

- (proper noun) A surname.

## Origin

The name has two main origins: it was borrowed from Vietnamese Thư, the local romanization of the Chinese surname 舒 (Shū); and from Norwegian Thu, a surname found mostly in Western Norway.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/thu (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).