title: Chu
text: # 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
  