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  Chu or CHU may refer to:

Surname:
  • Chu (surname)
    Chu (surname)

    Chu is a transliteration of wikt:?, also often denoted Zhu , which is a common surname in China. It was the "empire's surname" during the Ming Dynasty....
    , a common Chinese surname
  • Spanish writing Chu (English Chou or Zhou) is the surname ? from Guangzhou, Guangdong (Canton).


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 Chu? or Chuy River, on the Brazil-Uruguay border and Brazil's southernmost point, see Chu? River....
    , in modern Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
  • Chu, Kazakhstan (presently more commonly spelled "Shu"), a city in Kazakhstan
  • Nam Sam River
    Nam Sam River

    Nam Sam River or Chu 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
  • Hubei
    Hubei

    is a central province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation is ? , an ancient name associated with the eastern part of the province since the Qin Dynasty....
     and Hunan
    Hunan

    is a province of China of People's Republic of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting . Hunan is sometimes called wikt:? for short, after the Xiang River which runs through the province....
    , also known as Chu, provinces in the People's Republic of China


States:
  • Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
    Chu (Ten Kingdoms)

    Chu was a kingdom in southern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period . It existed from 907 to 951....
    , a kingdom during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
  • Chu (state)
    Chu (state)

    Chu was a monarchy in what is now central and southern China during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period . Its ruling house had the Chinese surname mi , and clan name xiong , and originally was of the noble rank of Chinese nobility#Princehood and Peerage, roughly comparable to a viscount....
    , a state in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period of ancient China
  • Kingdom of Chu
    Kingdom of Chu

    King of Chu was the title used by several rebellion leaders during the collapse of Qin Dynasty. Using the old name of Chu , these Kings claimed to be the rightful ruler of the old Chu territory ....
    , a state proclaimed by various rebellion leaders after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, including the state proclaimed by Xiang Yu during the Chu Han Contention
  • Huan Chu, short-lived Chinese regime of Huan Xuan from 403 to 404


Other:
  • Old Church Slavonic
    Old Church Slavonic

    Old Church Slavonic, also known as Old Bulgarian, or Old Macedonian, was the first literary Slavic language, based on the old Solun dialect of the Thessaloniki region by the 9th century Byzantine Greeks missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who used it for translation of the Bible and other Ancient Greek language ecclesiastica...
     (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....
    , House or Home in Min Nan Chinese
    Min Nan

    The Southern Min language, or Min Nan, refers to a family of Chinese dialects which are spoken in southern Fujian and neighboring areas, and by descendants of overseas Chinese 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 first part of the word is derived from the Greek language t?pos , place; followed by ?noma , meaning name....
     widely in Fujian
    Fujian

    is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
    , Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
    , Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
  • Chu (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichiro 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....
    , 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, Minnesota, a city in Houston County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....
    , in Houston County, Minnesota, United States
  • CHU (callsign), the callsign of a shortwave radio station in Ottawa, Canada
  • ChristenUnie, a Dutch political party
  • Christelijk-Historische Unie (Christian-Historical Union), an influential Protestant political party in the Netherlands
  • Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College, Cambridge

    Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and was founded in 1958 as the national and Commonwealth of Nations memorial to Winston Churchill....
    , used in University of Cambridge internal publications
  • China Unicom
    China Unicom

    China Unicom or China United Netcom Ltd , , is a telecommunication operator in the People's Republic of China. It is 40.92% of the company is effectively held by the China Unicom Limited and 29.49% by China Netcom Group Limited , while the remainder is traded on the Shanghai, Hong Kong and the New York stock exchanges....
    , NYSEstock symbol CHU, Chinese telecommunication company
  • Containerized housing unit
    Containerized housing unit

    Containerized Housing Unit, usually abbreviated as CHU is the name given to an International Organization for Standardization shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters....
    , a shipping container converted to living space