Chu or CHU may refer to:

Chinese history

Chu (state) Chu (, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was an Ancient Chinese states, ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BC. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted ...

(c. 1030 BC–223 BC), a state during the Zhou dynasty *

Western Chu Chu (, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BC. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted during the Spring a ...

(206 BC–202 BC), a state founded and ruled by Xiang Yu *

Chu Kingdom (Han dynasty) Chu () was a kingdom of China's Han dynasty, located in what is now northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. History During the Chu–Han Contention period, the Chu region centered in Pengcheng was the base of the Western Chu regime led by Xiang ...

(201 BC–70 AD), a kingdom of the Han dynasty * Huan Chu (403–404), a state founded by

Huan Xuan Huan Xuan () (369 – 19 June 404), courtesy name Jingdao (敬道), nickname Lingbao (靈寶), formally Emperor Wudao of Chu (楚武悼帝), was a Jin Dynasty warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin and declared ...

during the Eastern Jin dynasty *

Ma Chu Chu (), known in historiography as Ma Chu () or Southern Chu (), was a Dynasties of China, dynastic state of China that existed from 907 to 951. It is counted as one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Ten Kingdoms, Ten Kingdoms during ...

(907–951), a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period *

Da Chu Chu, officially the Great Chu, was a short-lived Chinese dynasty in 1127 ruled by Zhang Bangchang (1081–1127), a puppet emperor enthroned with the support of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty. The dynasty was abolished scarcely a month after its f ...

(1127), a puppet state installed by the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song wars

People

Surnames

Chu (Chinese surname) Chu is the pinyin romanization of several different Chinese surnames, which including 楚 ''Chǔ'', 儲/ 储 ''Chǔ'', 褚 ''Chǔ'', 觸/ 触 ''Chù'', etc. In the Wade–Giles romanization system, Chu is also a transliteration for 朱 ( Zhu ...

Zhu (surname) Zhu is the pinyin romanization of five Chinese surnames: wikt:朱, 朱, wikt:祝, 祝, wikt:竺, 竺, wiktionary:猪, 猪 and wikt:諸, 諸. The most prominent of the five, Zhu (wikt:朱, 朱), is the 17th name in the ''Hundred Family Surnames' ...

or Chu *

Chu (Korean name) Chu, also spelled Choo, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write it. Family name Overview The 2000 South Korean Census found 55,309 people with the family name Chu. It could be ...

Joo (Korean name) Ju (), also spelled Joo or Chu, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name As a family name, Ju may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "red" (; ...

or Chu

Places

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

or Chu, a province of China *

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

or Chu, a province of China *

Chũ Chũ is a district-level town () of Bắc Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about ...

, a town and district capital in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam

Rivers

Chu River (Tributary of Wei River) Chu River () is the second largest river in Ningxiang and one of the largest tributaries of the Wei River (Xiang River), Wei River. It originates in Longtian, Ningxiang, Longtian Town, is long, and has a valley area of . Chu River's main tribu ...

, a river of Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, China * Chu River (Anhui), a river in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, in China *

Chu (river) The Chu is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan. Of its total length of ,Чу (река)

, a river in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan * Nam Sam River or Chu River, a river in eastern Laos and the North Central Coast region of Vietnam *

Lục Nam River The Lục Nam River (), also called Minh Đức River or Chũ River, is a tributary of Thái Bình River in Northern Vietnam. It flows for 200 kilometres through Bắc Giang Province Bắc Giang �ak˧˥:zaːŋ˧˧was a former Provinces of ...

or Chũ River, a river in the Northeast region of Vietnam

Facilities and structures

* Houston County Airport (Minnesota)'s IATA code *

CHU (radio station) CHU is the call sign of a shortwave time signal radio station operated by the Institute for National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council. CHU's signal is used for continuous dissemination of official Canadian government time ...

, time signal, Ottawa, Canada * Chung Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan *

Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yaoundé The University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde (French: Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yaoundé - CHU) is one of the main hospitals in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It was founded by a Presidential decree on 28 October 1965. It has the goal of trainin ...

(University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde), Cameroon *

CHU UCLouvain Namur The CHU UCLouvain Namur or CHU UCL Namur (also called ''UCLouvain Namur'' by the University of Louvain and officially named ''Centre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur'') is a general hospital with academic beds ...

, a university hospital, Namur, Belgium

Music

* "Chu" (song), a song by f(x) *

Zhu (percussion instrument) __NOTOC__ The zhu is an idiophone, idiophonic percussion instrument that was used in ''yayue'', the ritual music of ancient China's Zhou dynasty, Zhou list of Chinese dynasties, dynasty. Form The zhu is a wooden box, typically painted red or ot ...

or Chu, an ancient Chinese instrument

Other uses

Christelijk-Historische Unie The Christian Historical Union (, CHU) was a Protestant Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CHU is one of the predecessors of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), into which it merged in September 1980. History 187 ...

or Christian-Historical Union, a former Protestant political party in the Netherlands *

Containerized housing unit A containerized housing unit, usually abbreviated as CHU (and sometimes called containerized living unit or CLU) is an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters. Such containers can be transported by container ships, railroad c ...

, a shipping container converted to living space *

China Unicom China United Network Communications Group (China Unicom) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator. Originally founded (on January 6 2009) as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a range of services inclu ...

's NYSE stock symbol CHU *

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic ( ) is the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the South Slavic languages, South Slavic subgroup of the ...

's ISO 639 alpha-3 code *

Chu (Daoism) ''Chu'' (, ) is a Daoist name used for various religious practices including communal ''chu'' (Kitchen) banquet rituals in Way of the Celestial Masters liturgy, the legendary ''xingchu'' (行廚, Mobile Kitchen) associated with Daoist ''xian'' ...

, religious practices named ''chú'' (廚, "kitchen") * Centigrade Heat Unit, an obsolete measure of heat