Zhao (surname)

Zhao / Chao / Chiu
PronunciationZhào (Mandarin Pinyin)
Ziu6 (Cantonese Jyutping)
Tiō (Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
Jo (Korean RR)
Triệu (Vietnamese)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
MeaningName of a feudal state during the Zhou dynasty
Other names
Variant form(s)Chao
Cantonese: Jew, Chew, Chiu, Chu, Jew, Jue, Siu, Tsiu
Shanghainese: Zau
Derivative(s)Cho, Triệu
Zhao
"Zhao" in seal script (top), Traditional (middle), and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhào
Wade–GilesChao4
IPA[ʈʂâʊ]
Wu
SuzhouneseZâu
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJiuh
JyutpingZiu6
Southern Min
Tâi-lôTiō
Middle Chinese
Middle Chineseɖjéu
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*[d]rewʔ
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetTriệu
Korean name
Hangul
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationJo

Zhao (//;[1] traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; 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).

  1. ^ "Zhao Ziyang". Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ 康熙字典, "趙"


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