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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 given 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
When referring to themselves, Vietnamese speakers, like speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, tend to deprecate their position while elevating the audience. While many of these terms are obsolete, some remain in widespread usage. The most prominent is tôi, literally meaning "servant". It is used as a fairly neutral term for "I ...
Vietnamese personal names are usually three syllables long, but may also be two or four syllables. The first syllable is the family name or surname.Because certain family names, notably Nguyen, are extremely common, they cannot be used to distinguish among individuals in the manner customary in English.
Thị (氏) is an archaic Sino-Vietnamese suffix meaning "clan; family; lineage; hereditary house" and attached to a woman's original family name, but now is used to simply indicate the female sex. For example, the name "Trần Thị Mai Loan" means "Mai Loan, a female person of the Trần family"; meanwhile, the name "Nguyễn Lê Thị An ...
Nguyễn (阮) (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. [a] [b] By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname. [1] [2] [3]
Knives Chau (Zhou Knives), fictional character from the Scott Pilgrim franchise; Mr. Chau, fictional character from the Scott Pilgrim franchise; Zhou Tong (Water Margin), fictional character from the Chinese classic the Water Margin; Zhou Botong, a fictional character from the Legend of the Condor Hero and Return of the Condor Heroes novels
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt , lit. ' Việt people ' or ' Việt humans ') or the Kinh people (Vietnamese: người Kinh , lit. 'Metropolitan people'), also recognized as the Viet people [67] or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.