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| Pronunciation | Zhào (Mandarin Pinyin) Ziu6 (Cantonese Jyutping) Tiō (Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Jo (Korean RR) Triệu (Vietnamese) |
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| Language(s) | Chinese |
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| Meaning | Name of a feudal state during the Zhou dynasty |
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| Variant form(s) | Chao Cantonese: Jew, Chew, Chiu, Chu, Jew, Jue, Siu, Tsiu Shanghainese: Zau |
| Derivative(s) | Cho, Triệu |
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| Traditional Chinese | 趙 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Triệu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 조 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zhao (/dʒaʊ/;[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. The first line of the poem is 趙錢孫李 (Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li).
Zhao may be romanized as "Chiu" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and is romanized in Taiwan and Hong Kong as "Chao" in the Wade–Giles system. It is cognate with the Vietnamese family name "Triệu" and with the Korean family name most commonly romanized as "Cho" (조).
The romanization is shared with the much rarer family name Zhào (兆).
- ^ "Zhao Ziyang". Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ 康熙字典, "趙"
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