Chu (Chinese surname)
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Chu character in ancient script on top, standard script at the bottom
Chu is the pinyin romanization of several different Chinese family names, which including 楚 Chǔ, 储 Chǔ, 褚 Chǔ, 触 Chù, etc.
However, in the Wade-Giles romanization system, Chu stands for 朱 (Zhu in pinyin), also can refer to several Chinese family names. In Hong Kong and Macao, this is also the spelling for the surname 朱.
Notable people named Chu
楚 Chǔ
The name is transliterated as Sở in Vietnamese
- Chu Liuxiang, fictional protagonist of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang Series
- Chu Qing (b. 1923), politician
储 Chǔ
- Chu Anping, scholar and liberal journalist in the 20th century
- Chu Bo (b. 1944), politician
褚 Chǔ
- Chu Suiliang, politician and calligrapher in Tang Dynasty
See also
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