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 (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 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) * Zhu (surname) or Chu * Chu (Korean name) * Joo (Korean name) or Chu

Places

* Hubei or Chu, a province of China * Hunan 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), 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