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Zhōu (Pinyin)
Chiu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
[ʈʂóu] (IPA) Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean Zhou, Chou (Mandarin)
Chow, Chau (Hong Kong)
Chao (Macao)
Chew, Chiu (Hokkien, Teochew)
Châu (Vietnamese) |
Zhōu is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family name 周, which now ranks as the 10th most common surname in Mainland China, and 71st in South Korea. It has been one of the ten most common surnames in China since the Yuan Dynasty.
In places which use the Wade-Giles romanization such as Taiwan, Zhou is usually spelled as "Chou" (ㄓㄡ), and it may also be spelled "Chiau", "Chau", "Chao", "Chew", "Chow", "Chou", "Cho", "Chu", "Jhou", "Joe", "Jou", "Jue", or "Jow". Zhōu can also stand for another, rare Chinese family name, 洲.
The Korean equivalent is "Joo" or "Ju". In addition, the Vietnamese equivalent is "Châu" or "Chu".
Zhou Enlai (1898–1976), first Premier of the People's Republic of China
Zhou Yongkang (born 1942), member of the 17th CPC Politburo Standing Committee
Lily Chau, Australian-Chinese pentester
Osric Chau, Canadian actor
Wakin Chau (Emil Chau), musician, singer
Jay Chou (Chou Chie Lun), Taiwanese musician, singer, songwriter and director
Bibi Zhou (born 1985), Chinese singer and actress
Chou Tzuyu, vocalist of the South-Korean girl group TWICE
Zhou Youguang (1906–2017), Chinese linguist and sinologist
Zhou Guangzhao, former president of Chinese Academy of Sciences,theoretical physicist
Kathy Chow, actress
Michael Chow Man-Kin, actor
Niki Chow, actress
Norm Chow, American football coach
William Kwai Sun Chow, Martial artist
Vivian Chow, singer
Zhou Jianren, politician, younger brother of Lu Xun
Wei-Liang Chow, mathematician
Wen Tsing Chow, missile guidance scientist
Malese Jow, Chinese-American teen actress
Vic Zhou, actor, singer
Zhou Haiyan (born 1990), Chinese female middle-distance runner
Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese pop female singer from the girl group I.O.I
Zhou Long, composer
Zhou Mi, Chinese female badminton player
Zhou Mi, Chinese pop male singer from the boy band Super Junior-M
Zhou Qi, Chinese basketball player
Zhou Shuren, writer using the pseudonym Lu Xun
Zhou Peiyuan, former president of Peking University, theoretical physicist
Zhou Xiaochuan, economist
Zhou Xiaoping, writer, social commentator.
Zhou Xiaoyan (1917–2016), soprano and voice teacher
Zhou Xuan (1918–1957), actress
Zhou Xun, actress
Zhou Yi (disambiguation)
Zhou Zuoren, writer, brother of Lu Xun
Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat, world famous Malaysian born London shoe designer.
Chow Yun-fat, famous Hong Kong actor
Stephen Chow, famous Hong Kong actor and director
Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer
Emmanuel Zhou, Zimbabwean
Alphabetized by surname, then by given name.
Zhou Fang, military general of the state of Eastern Wu
Zhou Tai,(d. 223) military general of the state of Eastern Wu
Zhou Tong (archer), famous archer and teacher of Song Dynasty General Yue Fei
Zhou Yafu, Han dynasty general
Zhou Yu, (175 - 210) general of Eastern Wu
Alphabetized by surname, then by given name.
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
Zhou Cang, fictional character from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Zhou Mei-Ling, fictional character from the Blizzard Entertainment video game Overwatch
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