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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).
Zhao (/ dʒ aʊ /; [1] traditional Chinese: 趙; simplified Chinese: 赵; pinyin: Zhào; Wade–Giles: Chao⁴) is a Chinese-language surname. [note 1] The name is first in the Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor's surname of the Song dynasty (960–1279) when the list was compiled.
Chao (currency) (鈔), the banknote used in Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China; Chao (Sonic the Hedgehog), a fictional species; Chao method, a way of indicating Chinese tones devised by Yuen Ren Chao; Chǎo technique (炒), a Chinese stir frying technique; Chao, part of several Thai royal ranks and titles. Chao (monarchy), a title of the Lan Na royal ...
It is largest and most visited of the clan jetties of Penang and is rendered in English as the Chew Clan Jetty, following the regional pronunciation of the surname Zhou 周 in the Minnan dialect, since the clan in question originates from Tong'An, Xiamen. [6] The clan jetties form part of the core area of the Georgetown UNESCO World Heritage ...
Cao is the 30th-most-common surname in mainland China as of 2019 [1] and the 58th-most-common surname on Taiwan.. In the United States, the romanization Cao is a fairly common surname, ranked 7,425th during the 1990 census but 2,986th during the year 2000 census. [2]
Last month, Ms Chao declined to respond to the former president’s ongoing use of a racist nickname for her and urged the media to avoid repeating it. “I mean, if it were the N-word or any ...
In Chile, chao is the standard farewell. In Spain, where "adios" (with a religious etymology as "goodbye", the same as Italian "addio" and French "adieu", meaning "to God" in English) is the common expression, people can use chao as an original way of saying goodbye. Swiss-German: ciao/Tschau ("hello" or "goodbye") Tigrinya: ቻው, chaw ...
To describe the pitch of the tones, its representation on a five-level scale is used, visualized with Chao tone letters. The values of the pitch for each tone described by Chao are traditionally considered standard, however slight regional and idiolectal variations in tone pronunciation also occur.