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Chu (or Châu is a Vietnamese surname. It is transliterated as Zhou (for Chu) and Zhu (for Châu) in Chinese, and Ju in Korean. Châu is also a unisex Vietnamese first name. Chau is the anglicized variation of Châu.
Chau may refer to: Châu, a Vietnamese surname, including a list of people with the name; Zhou (surname), or Chau, a Chinese family name, including a list of people with the name; CHAU-DT, a French language television station in Canada; Chau, by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, 2001 "Chau#", a 2015 song by Hey! Say! JUMP
Name Origin Total Number (2000) % (Chinese population) Character(s) Pinyin Other Forms Notes Trad. Simp. 1 Tan: Hokkien Teochew Hainanese: 237,800 9.5 陳: 陈: Chén: Chan for Cantonese, Chin for Hakka: 2 Lim: Hokkien Teochew Hainanese Hakka: 166,000 6.6 林: Lín: Lam or Lum for Cantonese: 3 Lee: Hokkien Teochew Cantonese Hainanese Hakka ...
The original surname of the royal Zhou family was Ji (姬). In 256 B.C., the Qin dynasty conquered Zhou and put Rufen under the jurisdiction of Runan County . Ji Yong, a descendant of King Ping of Zhou , which lived on the system of enfeoffment in Rufen, changed his surname to Zhou to commemorate the merits and virtues of his ancestors.
As an English surname, Chow originated as a nickname, from Middle English chowe, meaning "chough" or "jackdaw". [1]As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation):
Some people think this surname originated from Viscount Xiong Yi, the founder of Chu State in Western Zhou dynasty. After Qin conquered Chu, the royal family of Chu took their countries’ name as their surname. [citation needed] Chu Liuxiang, fictional protagonist of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang Series; Chu Qing (1923–2016), politician
Chao is a surname in various cultures. It is the Pinyin spelling of two Chinese surnames (晁 and 巢), the Wade–Giles spelling of two others (趙 or the much rarer 兆, both spelled in Pinyin as Zhào), and a regional or other spelling of two additional Chinese surnames (曹 Cáo and 周 Zhōu).
Zou (traditional Chinese: 鄒; simplified Chinese: 邹; pinyin: Zōu) is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China. [1] Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau