Chu (Chinese surname)

Chu (Chinese surname)

Chu is the pinyin romanization of several different Chinese family names, which including Chǔ, Chǔ, Chǔ, Chù, etc.

But in the Wade-Giles romanization system, Chu stands for Zhu in pinyin, also can refer to several Chinese family names.

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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 20th century
  • Chu Bo (b. 1944), politician

褚 Chǔ

See also

  • Zhu

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