Chu

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

Typically, the Wade-Giles romanization of the common Mandarin Chinese surname 朱 (Zhu).

Also derived from numerous pinyin romanizations of Mandarin Chinese surnames including 楚, 储, and 褚 (Chu).

Chu

1. A surname from Chinese.

• Chu-Harrington limit

From Mandarin Chinese 楚 (Chǔ).

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'u

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, volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, 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)

• UHC, cuh, huc

From Hokkien 朱 (“Chu”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu/, [ˈt͡ʃu]

Chu

1. a surname from Min Nan of Chinese origin

Sino-Vietnamese word from 周 or 朱.

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

Chu

1. a surname from Chinese

• Châu