# zhu vs Zulu

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### zhu
*noun · frequency rank #24,964*
An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.

### Zulu
*noun · IPA /ˈzuːluː/ · frequency rank #22,870*
A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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