chu

chu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Church Slavonic.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Old Church Slavonic terms

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

chu

1. (anime and manga fandom slang) The sound of a kiss.
   • 1996 August 12, Kathleen Webb, “Re: Zoicite a guy!!!”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon‎^[1] (Usenet):

     By the way, isn't it interesting that the Japanese hear the sound "chu" when someone kisses? In the US, we usually say, "smooch," "smack," "smerp," or even "swock." Now, everytime^[sic] I kiss my husband, I'm listening to hear if it sounds like "chu."

   • 2000 August 4, Fish Eye no Miko [username], “Re: [POLL] Which anime characters could be Ohtori students?”, in alt.fan.utena‎^[2] (Usenet):

     >Eldrick Tobin - Kiss worthiness of sig pending.
     
     <chu!>
     Seems fine to me. ^_^

   • 2000 August 19, Verthandi, “Re: [META] Ohha! Gally desu!”, in alt.fan.utena‎^[3] (Usenet):

     movie Akio: [shoots a kiss to himself] Chu! ^.~

• mwah
• smooch

Pronunciation spelling of you, especially when preceded by a t sound.

chu

1. (slang, nonstandard) You.

   Synonym: cha

chu

1. also

chu

1. H-system spelling of ĉu

• IPA^(key): /ʃy/

Inherited from Old French cheü, chaü, from Vulgar Latin *cadūtus, past participle for Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre.

chu (feminine chue, masculine plural chus, feminine plural chues)

1. past participle of choir

• déchu

Contraction of je +‎ suis.

• chui, chuis, j’suis

chu

1. (Quebec, colloquial) I am

   Chu vraiment tanné, là!

   I'm real fed up!

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

chu

1. beer, alcohol

chu

1. year

• chuu (Alaska)

chu

1. (Canada) water

For pronunciation and definitions of chu – see 書 (“book; codex; letter; document; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 書).

chu

1. The hiragana syllable ちゅ (chu) or the katakana syllable チュ (chu) in Hepburn romanization.

chu (chu⁵／chu⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄔㄨ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of chū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chù.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From English chew.

chu

1. chew

chu (masculine before vowel chut, feminine chute, masculine plural chus, feminine plural chutes)

1. (France, Jersey) this

   Je le viyis chu jouo quaund je feus à la feire ― I saw him that day as I went to the fair

   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[4], page 515:

     Tout chu qui vient de flot se retournera d'ebe.

     All that comes with the flood will return with the ebb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃṳ˧/

chu (plural ndyu)

1. year

• chu jndyo

• Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[5] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN

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

chu

1. (of lips) to protrude

chu

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 周

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /χɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /χiː/
• Homophone: chi (South Wales only)

chu

1. Aspirate mutation of cu.