Chu

• IPA^(key): /tʃu/
• Homophone: chew
• Rhymes: -uː

Typically, the Wade–Giles romanization of the common Mandarin 朱 (Zhū) Wade-Giles romanization: Chu¹.

• Zhu (Hanyu Pinyin)

Chu

1. A surname from Mandarin.

• Chu-Harrington limit

From Mandarin 楚 (Chǔ), 储 (Chǔ), and 褚 (Chǔ).

• Ch'u (Wade–Giles)

Chu

1. (historical) An ancient Chinese viscounty and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty (circa 1030–223 B.C.E.) along the Yangtze River.
   • 1971, “Historical Relic Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:

     A group of bronzes of the late Western Chou were uncovered in Chingshan County, Hupeh Province, and 25 pieces of stone ching (musical chimes) with a painted design of the State of Chu were found in Chiangling County of the same province.

2. (historical) The realm of this state, as a region or fief in later imperial China.
3. (historical) Huan Chu, the short-lived kingdom of Huan Xuan (403–404 C.E.).
4. (historical) Ma Chu, a kingdom (907–951 C.E.) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

• Huan Chu (5th century state)
• Ma Chu (10th century state)

From Russian Чу (Ču), from its local name.

Chu

1. A river in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
   • 1884, Élisée Reclus, translated by Ernest George Ravenstein et al., The Earth and Its Inhabitants, Vol. VI, p. 187:

     The Kara-tau, or "Black Mountain," the last spur of the Tian-shan towards the north-west, seldom exceeds 6,500 feet in height, but is geographically of great importance, as forming the water-parting between the Sir and Chu basins. It also abounds most in coal, iron, copper, and argentiferous lead.

• Shu, Chui, Chuy

• UHC, cuh, huc

• Tjoe, Tjoa (chiefly 1901–1947)
• Tju (chiefly 1947–1972)
• Cu

Borrowed from Hokkien 朱 (Chu) and Hakka 朱 (Chû)

Chu

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hokkien.
2. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hakka.

Borrowed from Hokkien 朱 (Chu).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu/ [ˈt͡ʃu]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈtsu/ [ˈt͡su]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: Chu
• Homophones: Cheu, Chew, Chiu

Chu (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

• IPA^(key): /tʃu/

chū

1. big

• Gūnáhà. Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute. https://gunaha.altlab.app/

Sino-Vietnamese word from 周 or 朱.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [cʊw˧˧]
• Homophones: chu, tru

Chu

1. the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE)
2. a surname from Chinese

• Châu