Chu
# 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

## 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
