Chu or CHU may refer to:

Chinese history

Chu (state) Chu, or Ch'u in Wade–Giles romanization, (, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou he ...

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

Western Chu Chu, or Ch'u in Wade–Giles romanization, (, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou hea ...

(206 BC–202 BC), a state founded and ruled by Xiang Yu * Chu Kingdom (Han dynasty) (201 BC–70 AD), a kingdom of the Han dynasty * Chu (403–404), a state founded by

Huan Xuan Huan Xuan (桓玄) (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 de ...

during the Jin dynasty *

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

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

Da Chu Da 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 formation. By 1127, the Jin ...

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

People

Surnames

Chu (Chinese surname) Chu is the pinyin romanization of several different Chinese family names, 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: 朱, 祝, 竺, 猪 and 諸. The most prominent of the five, Zhu ( 朱), is the 17th name in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem and was the surname of the Ming dynasty emperors. It ...

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 (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

or Chu, a province of China *

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

or Chu, a province of China *

Chũ Chũ is a commune-level town (Vietnam), township (''Thị trấn'') and town and capital of Lục Ngạn District, Bắc Giang Province, in north-eastern Vietnam.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 The Wei River () is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. It is the largest tributary of the Yellow River a ...

, a river of Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, China *

Chu River (Anhui) Chu River () is a river of Anhui and Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of t ...

, a river in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, in China *

Chu (river) The Chu (Shu or Chüy) ( kk, Шу, Shu, شۋ; ky, Чүй, Chüy, چۉي; dng, Чў, Chwu (from , ''Chǔ''); russian: Чу, Chu) is a river in Northern Kyrgyzstan and Southern Kazakhstan. Of its total length of ,Nam Sam River Chu River (name in Vietnam, vi, Sông Chu, links=no) also known as the Nam Sam River or Nam Xam River (name in Laos) is the largest tributary of Ma River. It originates from Houa peak at 2062m near Xam Neua town, Houaphanh Province in eastern La ...

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

Lục Nam River The Lục Nam River ( vi, Sông Lục Nam), also called Minh Đức River or Chũ River, is a river of Vietnam. It flows for 200 kilometres through Bắc Giang Province and Lạng Sơn Province.Vietnam Administrative Atlas, NXB Bản Đồ, 2004 R ...

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

Facilities and structures

Houston County Airport (Minnesota) Houston County Airport is a public use airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Caledonia, a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by Houston County. It serves general aviation for Cale ...

'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 s ...

, 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 university hospital located in the c ...

, a university hospital, Namur, Belgium

Music

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

Zhu (percussion instrument) The Zhu () was a percussion instrument used in the Confucian court ritual music of ancient China. It consisted of a wooden box (which was often painted red or otherwise decorated) that tapered from the top to the bottom, and was played by grasping ...

or Chu, an ancient Chinese instrument

Other uses

Christelijk-Historische Unie The Christian Historical Union ( nl, Christelijk-Historische Unie, 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 i ...

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 ...

, a shipping container converted to living space *

China Unicom China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. () or China Unicom () (CUniq in short) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator. Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a range of services in ...

's NYSE stock symbol CHU *

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...

's ISO 639 alpha-3 code *

Chu (Daoism) ''Chu'' (廚, lit. "kitchen") 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 D ...

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