Chu

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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
Huan Chu (403–404), a state founded by Huan Xuan during the Eastern Jin dynasty
Ma Chu (907–951), a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
Da Chu (1127), a puppet state installed by the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song wars

People

Surnames

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