Chu

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Chu or CHU may refer to:

Surname

• Chu (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).

Places

• Districts, in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
• Chu River, in modern Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
• Chü Province, in Kyrgyzstan
• Chu, Kazakhstan (presently more commonly spelled "Shu"), a city in Kazakhstan
• Nam Sam River, also known as Chu River, in Vietnam
• Chũ - a town and district capital in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam
• Hubei and Hunan, also known as Chu, provinces in the People's Republic of China

States

• Chu (Ten Kingdoms), a kingdom during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• Chu (state) (楚), a state in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period of ancient China
• Kingdom of Chu, 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 (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 (厝), House or Home in Min Nan Chinese and its Taiwanese dialect. This word appear on Toponym widely in Fujian, Taiwan, Singapore
• 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, a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Houston County Airport (Minnesota), 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, used in University of Cambridge internal publications
• China Unicom, NYSE stock symbol CHU, Chinese telecommunication company
• Containerized housing unit, a shipping container converted to living space

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