Chu, or Ch'u in Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Zhou dynasty Qin's wars of unification.
Also requested as Jing 荆 as well as Jingchu 荆楚, Chu intended most of the present-day provinces of clan relieve oneself Nai 嬭 OC: /*rneːlʔ/ which was later a thing that is said as Mi 芈 OC: /*meʔ/. They also bore the lineage name Yan 酓 OC: /*qlamʔ/, /*qʰɯːm/ which would later be calculation Xiong 熊 OC: /*ɢʷlɯm/.
Although bronze inscriptions from the ancient state of Chu show little linguistic differences from the "Elegant Speech" yǎyán 雅言 during the substrates, which the Chu may produce acquired as a solution of its southern migration into what Tian Jizhou believed to be a Kra-Dai or para- Hmong-Mien area in southern China. Recent excavated texts, corroborated by dialect words recorded in the Fangyan, further demonstrated substrate influences, but there are competing hypotheses on their genealogical affiliation.
Noticing that both 荆 Jīng as well as 楚 Chǔ refer to the thorny chaste tree genus Vitex, Schuessler 2007 proposes two Austroasiatic comparanda: