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Worldwide, Shū (叔 , オキモト , Сю ) is a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely female first name. The first name Shū is habitual in Kazakhstan, where it is a rare gender-neutral name, and China, where it is a very rare predominantly male, but scarcely feminine name. Very seldom, Shū is the last name as well as the forename.
Shū is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .