Chu
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Chu or CHU may refer to:

Surname:
  • Chu (Chinese surname), a common Chinese surname for 朱 (Zhu), but it can also refer to any Chinese surname whose pinyin is "chu", such as 楚, 储, 褚, 初, 除 and other possible surnames.
  • Spanish writing Chu (English Chou or Zhou) is the surname 曹 from Guangzhou, Guangdong (Canton).
  • Chu (Vietnamese surname)
    Chu (Vietnamese surname)
    Chu or Châu is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Zhou and Zhu in Chinese, and Ju in Korean.Chau is the anglicized variation of the surname Châu.-Notable people with the surname Chu/Châu:*Chu Văn An...

    , a Vietnamese surname.
  • and Chu is a Korean Surname as well.

Places:
  • Districts, in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
  • Chu River
    Chu River
    "Chui River" redirects here. For the South American Chuí or Chuy River, on the Brazil-Uruguay border and Brazil's southernmost point, see Chuí River. For the Nam Sam River or Chu River, on the Lao-Vietnam border, see Nam Sam River....

    , in modern Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
  • Chü Province, in Kyrgyzstan
  • Chu, Kazakhstan (presently more commonly spelled "Shu"), a city in Kazakhstan
  • Nam Sam River
    Nam Sam River
    Chu River or Nam Sam River is the largest tributary of Ma River. It originates from Houa peak at 2062 m near Sam Neua town, Houaphan Province in Eastern Laos and travels eastern to meander through Nghe An and Thanh Hoa Provinces of Vietnam...

    , also known as Chu River, in Vietnam
  • Chũ
    Chũ
    Chũ is a township and town and capital of Lục Ngạn District, Bac Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam....

    , a town and district capital in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam
  • Chũ River
    Chũ River
    The Chũ also called Minh Đức River is a river of Lang Son Province in northeastern Vietnam. The 175 kilometre long river originates from Dinh Lap mountain....

    , river of Lang Son Province, Vietnam
  • Hubei
    Hubei
    ' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...

     and Hunan
    Hunan
    ' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

    , also known as Chu, provinces in the People's Republic of China


States:
  • Chu (state)
    Chu (state)
    The State of Chu was a Zhou Dynasty vassal state in present-day central and southern China during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period . Its ruling house had the surname Nai , and clan name Yan , later evolved to surname Mi , and clan name Xiong...

     (楚), a state in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period
    Warring States Period
    The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, or the Warring Kingdoms period, covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC...

     of ancient China
  • Chu (state)
    Chu (state)
    The State of Chu was a Zhou Dynasty vassal state in present-day central and southern China during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period . Its ruling house had the surname Nai , and clan name Yan , later evolved to surname Mi , and clan name Xiong...

     (楚) kingdoms or Western Chu (state) (西楚) hegemony, regimes proclaimed by various rebellion leaders after the fall of the Qin Dynasty (see Pretenders at the bottom of the list of rulers of Chu (state) (楚)), including Western Chu (西楚) (state) proclaimed by Xiang Yu
    Xiang Yu
    Xiang Yu was a prominent military leader and political figure during the late Qin Dynasty. His given name was Ji while his style name was Yu ....

     as Hegemon during the Chu-Han Contention
    Chu-Han contention
    The Chu–Han Contention was a post-Qin Dynasty interregnum period in Chinese history. Following the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu split the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms. Two prominent contending powers, Western Chu and Han, emerged from these principalities and engaged in a...

  • Huan Chu (state), officially Chu (state) (楚) but now dubbed Huan Chu (state) (桓楚), short-lived Chinese regime of Huan Xuan
    Huan Xuan
    Huan Xuan , courtesy name Jingdao , nickname Lingbao , formally Emperor Wudao of Chu , was a Jin Dynasty warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin and declared his own state of Chu in 403, but was defeated by an uprising led by the general Liu Yu in 404 and killed...

     from 403 to 404, an interruption in the continuing Jin dynasty
  • Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
    Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
    Chǔ was a kingdom in southern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period . It existed from 907 to 951.-Founding:Ma Yin was named regional governor by the Tang court in 896 after fighting against a rebel named Yang Xingmi. He declared himself as the Prince of Chu with the fall of the...

     state (楚), a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
    Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
    Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was between 907–960/979 AD and an era of political upheaval in China, between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the founding of the Song Dynasty. During this period, five dynasties quickly succeeded one another in the north, and more than 12 independent states were...

     of China


Other:
  • Old Church Slavonic
    Old Church Slavonic
    Old Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavic was the first literary Slavic language, first developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek...

     (ISO 639 alpha-3, chu)
  • Chu (instrument), an ancient Chinese instrument made of wood like a box that is struck by a stick to mark section beginnings
  • Chhù
    Chhu
    Chhu was a Kushan emperor around 310-325 AD....

     (厝), House or Home in Min Nan Chinese
    Min Nan
    The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora....

     and its Taiwanese dialect. This word appear on Toponym
    Toponymy
    Toponymy is the scientific study of place names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos and ónoma . Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds...

     widely in Fujian
    Fujian
    ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

    , Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

    , Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

  • Chu (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece
  • Chu Jelly, a recurrent enemy in the Legend of Zelda series


CHU may refer to:
  • Chung Hua University
    Chung Hua University
    Chung Hua University is a private university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China. It was formerly known as Chung Hua Polytechnic Institute founded in 1990 by three local Hsinchu entrepreneurs, Ron-Chang Wang, Zau-Juang Tsai, and Junq-Tzer Lin. It upgraded university status and renamed as...

    , a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Houston County Airport (Minnesota)
    Houston County Airport (Minnesota)
    Houston County Airport is a public use airport located three miles 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 Caledonia and surrounding towns including Spring Grove and...

    , in Houston County, Minnesota, United States
  • CHU (callsign), the callsign of a shortwave radio station in Ottawa, Canada
  • Christelijk-Historische Unie (Christian-Historical Union), an influential Protestant political party in the Netherlands
  • Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...

    , used in University of Cambridge internal publications
  • China Unicom
    China Unicom
    China Unicom or China United Netcom Ltd , is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator in the People's Republic of China.-History:...

    , NYSE stock symbol CHU, Chinese telecommunication company
  • Containerized housing unit
    Containerized housing unit
    Containerized Housing Unit, usually abbreviated as CHU is the name given to an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters...

    , a shipping container converted to living space
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