Chu or CHU may refer to:

Chinese history

  • Chu (state) (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) (201 BC–70 AD), a kingdom of the Han dynasty
  • Huan Chu (403–404), a state founded by Huan Xuan during the Eastern Jin dynasty
  • Ma Chu (907–951), a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  • Da Chu (1127), a puppet state installed by the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song wars

People

Surnames

  • Chu (Chinese surname)
  • Chu (Vietnamese 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, a town and district capital in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam

Rivers

  • 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 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, 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's ISO 639 alpha-3 code
  • Chu (Daoism), religious practices named chú (廚, "kitchen")
  • Centigrade Heat Unit, an obsolete measure of heat

See also

  • Choo (disambiguation)
  • Chuu (disambiguation)
  • "Mr. Chu" (A Pink song)
  • Shu, Kazakhstan (disambiguation)