Chu may refer to:

Surname

• A common Chinese surname

Places

• Chu River in modern Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
• Chu, Kazakhstan, a city in Kazakhstan
• A popular unofficial name for the Hubei Province and Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China

States

• Chu (Ten Kingdoms), a kingdom during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• State of Chu(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
• The short-lived regime of Huan Xuan: see Jin Dynasty (265-420)

People

• Frank Chu, San Francisco eccentric

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
• A variation on the Latin transliteration of the common Chinese surname Zhu.
• Meaning House or Home in Min Nan Chinese and its Taiwanese dialect. This word appear on Toponym widely in Fujian, Taiwan, Singapore. See Chhù(厝).

CHU may refer to: Chu (朱), often denoted Zhu in Pinyin in today’s Mainland China, is one of the most common Surnames in China, with a Population of over ten million. ... The Chu (or Chui or Chuy) (Russian: Чу, Kyrgyz: Чүй, Kazakh: Шу) is one of the longest rivers in Kyrgyzstan and drains the northern Kyrgyz ranges of the western Tian Shan, flowing through the Chuy valley near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek before leaving Kyrgyzstan and flowing into Kazakhstan. ... Chu is the name of a city and also of a town in Kazakhstan. ... Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hebei Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; pinyin: Húběi; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei, also seen as Hupeh), abbreviated to 鄂 (pinyin: È, WG: O), a province of the Peoples Republic of China, lies to the north of the Dongting Lake... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Henan Hunan (湖南; pinyin: Húnán) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Dongting Lake (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is... Chu (楚) was a kingdom in what-is-now China during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. ... State of Chu (small seal script, 220 BC) Chu (楚) was a kingdom in what is now southern China during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BCE) and Warring States Period (481-212 BCE). ... King of Chu was the title used by several rebellion leaders during the collapse of Qin Dynasty. ... Huan Xuan (桓玄) (369-404), courtesy name Jingdao (敬道), nickname Lingbao (靈寶), formally Emperor Wudao of Chu, was a Jin Dynasty (265-420) warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin and declared his own state of Chu in 403, but was defeated by an uprising led by... The Jin Dynasty (晉 pinyin: jìn, 265-420), one of the Six Dynasties, followed the Three Kingdoms and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. ... Frank Chu (born 24 March 1960) is one of San Francisco’s best-known eccentrics. ... Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian or Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki (Solun) by the 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. ... Traditional Chinese musical instruments comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. ... Chopsticks is also the name of a simple piece of music for piano. ... Mǐn N n (Chinese: 閩南語), also spelt as Minnan or Min-nan; native name B ; literally means Southern Min or Southern Fujian and refers to the local language/dialect of southern Fujian province, China. ... Taiwanese (pe̍h-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tâi-oân-oÄ“ or Tâi-gí; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a variant of Amoy Min Nan Chinese spoken by about 70% of Taiwans population. ... Toponymy is the taxonomic study of toponyms (place-names), their origins and their meanings. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal map spelling: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kiàn) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

• Chung Hua University, an university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Houston County Airport, in Houston County, Minnesota.
• 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
• NYSE: CHU, China Unicom's stock symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.
• Containerized housing unit, a shipping container converted to living space.

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