What Does HRU Mean in a Text?
The Quick Answer
HRU means "How are you?".More Observations...
The abbreviation HRU is widely used in text messaging and on social media as a greeting with the meaning "How Are You?". For example:- Charlie: HRU?
- Jordan: All good here. HRU?
- HBU (How about you?)
- HBY (How about you?)
- HDYD (How do you do?)
- HGI (How goes it?)
- HIG (How's it going?)
- HAY (How are you?)
- HAYD (How are you doing?)
- WSG (What's good?)
- WSP (What's Up?)
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When I write HRU, I mean this:
![meaning of HRU](../IMT_images/HRU_definition.jpg)
HRU is a very common way of asking "How are you?".
Summary of Key Points
"How Are You?" is, by far, the most common meaning for HRU when it is used in a text. (Bear in mind that it could have another meaning if used in a different context.)HRU | |
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Definition: | How Are You? |
Type: | Abbreviation |
Guessability: | ![]() 2: Quite easy to guess |
Typical Users: | ![]() Adults and Teenagers |
An Academic Look at HRU
HRU plays the role of an interrogative sentence (i.e., a question), but it is commonly seen without a question mark. It can be written "HRU?" or "HRU".What Did We Say before Texting and Social Media?
Before the digital era, we might have said something like "How are things?" or just "All right?" instead of using the abbreviation HRU.Example of HRU Used in a Text
HRU
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