chu

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese onomatopoeia ちゅっ (chu).

chu

1. 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 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! ^.~

• smooch

• UHC, huc

chu

1. H-system spelling of ĉu

Past participle of choir. From Old French cheü, chaü, from a Vulgar Latin root *cadūtu(s) as the past participle of *cadēre, from Latin cadō. Compare Occitan casut, Italian caduto, Catalan caigut, Romanian căzut.

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

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) past participle of choir

• déchu

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• chui, chuis, j’suis

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ʃy/

chu

1. (Quebec, colloquial) I am.

chu

1. year

• chuu (Alaska)

chu

1. (Canada) water

chu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゅ
2. Rōmaji transcription of チュ

chu (chu⁵／chu⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄔㄨ)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of chū.
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of chú.
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of chǔ.
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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)‎^[4] (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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 周.

chu

1. (only in compounds) thorough; meticulous