Chu

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
• Chu (403–404), a state founded by Huan Xuan during the Jin dynasty
• Chu (Ten Kingdoms) (907–951), a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Da Chu (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

Fictional characters

• Chu (One Piece), a character in One Piece

Places

• Hubei or Chu, a province of China
• Hunan or Chu, a province of China
• Chü Province, Kyrgyzstan
• 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 modern 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

• CHU or Centre hospitalier universitaire, "university hospital center", part of the name of several French hospitals, for example, CHU de Montpellier
• Houston County Airport (Minnesota)'s IATA code
• CHU (radio station), a shortwave time signal radio station in Ottawa, Canada
• Chung Hua University, a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yaoundé or University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde, a university hospital in Yaoundé, Cameroon
• CHU UCLouvain Namur, a university hospital of the UCLouvain in Namur, Belgium

Music

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

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")

See also

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