chu

Meanings

1. The sound of a kiss.

1. You.

1. Initialism of containerized housing unit, a shipping container converted to living space.

1. Initialism of Chung Hua University, a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan).

1. A surname from Mandarin.

1. An ancient Chinese viscounty and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty (circa 1030–223 B.C.E.) along the Yangtze River.
2. The realm of this state, as a region or fief in later imperial China.
3. Huan Chu, the short-lived kingdom of Huan Xuan (403–404 C.E.).
4. Ma Chu, a kingdom (907–951 C.E.) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

1. A river in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Etymology

From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).