Cho facts for kids

Cho or CHO may refer to:

People

• Chief Happiness Officer

Surnames

• Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname 조, derived from the Chinese surnames Zhao (Hanja 趙) and Cao (曺)
• Zhuo (卓), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname
• Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao (曹)
• Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang (Kanji 張)
  • Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion
  • Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor
  • Isamu Chō (1895-1945), Japanese lieutenant general

Characters

• Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name for Zhū Bājiè or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en
  • Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki), the same character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki, based on the novel

Given name

• Cho Ramaswamy (1934-2016), Indian actor and writer
• Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of a female name and at the end for male names
  • Rich Cho (born 1965), American baseball manager
  • Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician

Characters

• Cho Chang, a fictional character from the Harry Potter series

Nicknames and stagenames

• Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name Chō
• CHO, a nickname given to Callum Hudson-Odoi, an English professional footballer

Places

• Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport

Entertainment

• Center-hand opponent, a term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms
• Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper
• "Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song), 1996
• Chō (Tsuki Amano song)

Science

• Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO cell)
• CHO, a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry, showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse over the length opposite side
• cubohemioctahedron, in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron
• -CHO, the chemical symbol for an aldehyde
• Carbohydrate, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O)

Technology

• Chō, an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 meters or 357'11"
• Chō, also used as a unit of area in Japan approximately 2.449 acres or 0.9917 hectares
• Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone

Other

• The ISO 639 code for the Choctaw language

See also

In Spanish: Cho para niños

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