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Appendix:Variations of "eu"
Translingual
Symbol
mul Q458 1 2 1 the European Union
Usage notes
ISO 4217 being used in the International Securities Identification Number system
mul European Union
English
Alternative forms
en E.U.
Pronunciation
en /ˌiː ˈjuː/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-EU.wav CA
Proper noun
en Q458 en politics economics en European Union<id:Q458>.
en 2005 John MacDonald; Andrew Bowden Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe 151 France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate
en Emily Dixon The developing countries with the most to fear from Brexit w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/asia/cambodia-brexit-worst-affected-scli-intl 2019-02-04 “The key responsibility here falls on the UK,” Hopewell said. “In order to prevent a major drop in LDC (least developed country) exports, it urgently needs to replicate the terms of the EU GSP and the EBA treaty and ensure that these arrangements are in place before the UK leaves the EU on March 29.” https://web.archive.org/web/20190204170515/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/asia/cambodia-brexit-worst-affected-scli-intl/ 4 February 2019
en Jack Guy UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/uk/sprinkles-bakery-banned-scli-intl-gbr 2021-10-14 The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday. https://web.archive.org/web/20250829215639/https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/uk/sprinkles-bakery-banned-scli-intl-gbr 29 August 2025
Coordinate terms
European Union
en EC
en EEC
Derived terms
en EU12 EU15 EU25 EU27 EU28 EU English EUian EU-speak EU-wide
Translations
European Union European Union EUSSR
Arabic: ar
Armenian: hy ԵՄ
Belarusian: be ЕС m, be ЭЗ m Taraškievica, be ЕЗ m Taraškievica
Catalan: ca UE f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 歐盟 Ōuméng
Crimean Tatar: crh AB
Czech: cs EU f
Danish: da EU n
Dutch: nl EU f
Estonian: et EL
Faroese: fo ES n
Finnish: fi EU
French: fr UE f
Galician: gl UE f
Georgian: ka ევროკავშირი the only used shortening
German: de EU f
Greek: el ΕΕ
Hungarian: hu EU
Irish: ga AE, ga an tAE
Italian: it UE
Japanese: ja EU Īyū
Korean: ko
Latin: la Ūniō Eurōpaea f
Latvian: lv ES f
Luxembourgish: lb EU f
Macedonian: mk ЕУ f
Maltese: mt UE
Mongolian: mn EН
Norwegian: no EU m
Persian: fa
Portuguese: pt UE f
Romanian: ro UE
Russian: ru ЕС m
Scottish Gaelic: gd AE m
Sicilian: scn UE f
Slovak: sk EÚ n
Spanish: es UE f
Swedish: sv EU c
Thai: th อียู
Turkish: tr AB
Ukrainian: uk ЄС m
Volapük: vo BY
Welsh: cy UE m
Noun
-
en Star Wars en expanded universe.
See also
Star Wars expanded universe on Wikipedia.
Anagrams
en eu UE
en initialisms
en Organizations European Union
Czech
Pronunciation
cs Cs-EU.ogg
Proper noun
f
en EU; cs Evropská unie European Union
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl /eːˈy/
nl Nl-EU.ogg
Proper noun
f
en EU; nl Europese Unie European Union
Finnish
Pronunciation
ee-uu
Proper noun
EU; fi Euroopan unioni European Union
Declension
EU u a
Derived terms
fi Euvostoliitto
fi compounds EU-maa
Further reading
2023-07-02
Anagrams
fi eu -ue
French
Alternative forms
fr É.-U. ÉU
Proper noun
m
fr US Q30 États-Unis<eq:United States>
fr US USA ÉUA
Anagrams
fr UE
German
Pronunciation
de [eːˈʔuː]
de De-EU.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de uː 2
Proper noun
f
EU; de Europäische Union European Union
Declension
f.sg
Derived terms
de EUdSSR
Noun
f.sg
de Erwerbsunfähigkeit
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Hungarian
Pronunciation
hu Hu-EU.ogg
hu u 2
Proper noun
hu proper noun
en EU; hu Európai Unió European Union
Declension
EU- o sg
Derived terms
hu EU-csatlakozás
hu EU-s
Japanese
Etymology
ja en EU.
Pronunciation
イーユー
Proper noun
proper イーユー
en EU; ja 欧州連合 Ōshū rengō
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
nn proper noun m
en EU; nn Den europeiske unionen
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
f
sh Europska unija, the European Union
Spanish
Proper noun
es US Q30 Estados Unidos<eq:United States>
Swedish
Proper noun
c EU\:s
en EU; sv Europeiska unionen European Union
sv European Union
Vietnamese
Etymology
vi en EU.
Pronunciation
e u
Proper noun
vi Liên minh châu Âu European Union
vi European Union