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
 * 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

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