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) Chu Kingdom ( zh, 楚國) 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 ...

(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. It originates in Longtian Town, is long, and has a valley area of . Chu River's main tributaries include the Caochong River () and Yangh ...

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

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

Facilities and structures

* Houston County Airport (Minnesota)'s IATA code * CHU (radio station), time signal, Ottawa, Canada *

Chung Hua University Chung Hua University (CHU; ) is a private university located in Xiangshan District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It was formerly known as Chung Hua Polytechnic Institute founded in 1990 by three local Hsinchu entrepreneurs, Ron-Chang Wang, Zau-Juang T ...

, Hsinchu, Taiwan * Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yaoundé (University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde), Cameroon * CHU UCLouvain Namur, a university hospital, Namur, Belgium

Music

* "Chu" (song), a song by f(x) * Zhu (percussion instrument) or Chu, an ancient Chinese instrument

Other uses

* Christelijk-Historische Unie or Christian-Historical Union, a former Protestant political party in the Netherlands * Containerized housing unit, a shipping container converted to living space * China Unicom'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), religious practices named ''chú'' (廚, "kitchen") * Centigrade Heat Unit, an obsolete measure of heat