Zhao (surname)

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Zhao / Chao / Chiu
Cho, Triệu
Zhao
Tâi-lô
Tiō
Middle Chinese
Middle Chineseɖjéu
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*[d]rewʔ
Vietnamese nameVietnamese alphabetTriệuKorean nameHangul

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).

Evolution of the Zhao clan

Zhao clan (趙氏) – Royal house of
Jiang (江), Qin (秦), Zhao (趙), Huang (黄), Liang (梁), Ma (馬), Ge (葛), Gu (谷), Mou (繆), Zhong (鍾), Fei (費), and Qu
(瞿)

Modern culture

In Lu Xun's novel The True Story of Ah Q, Ah Q said he belonged to the same clan as Mr. Zhao, who was an honored landlord of the village. Mr. Zhao was very angry. He slapped Ah Q's face and said, 'How could you be named Zhao!—Do you think you are worthy of the name Zhao?'[3]

Since 2015 or earlier, in the Chinese internet, Zhao became the intimation of the Chinese Communist Party and the 'State of Zhao' became the intimation of China. Similarly, 'The Zhao Family' refers to the dignitaries of China, and "The Zhao's Army" refers to the People's Liberation Army.[4] 'How could you be named Zhao!' is popular to satirize the people who are humble but pretend to be powerful.

In 2016, the blog writer Program Think set up a

general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and many other high level government officials of the Chinese Communist Party. The Cyberspace Administration of China requested GitHub to remove the project.[6] Error status code 451
would be reached if the connection request to the project is from China.

Prominent people with the family name

Historical figures

Modern figures

See also

Notes

  1. Kangxi dictionary's entry "趙".[2]

References

  1. ^ "Zhao Ziyang". Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ 康熙字典, "趙"
  3. ^ Ah-Q, Lu Xun, Lu Hsun. "The True Story of Ah-Q". marxists.org. Retrieved 2017-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "赵家人 - China Digital Space". China Digital Times. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  5. ^ 编程随想 (2017-07-01), zhao: 【编程随想】整理的《太子党关系网络》,专门揭露赵国的权贵, retrieved 2017-07-01
  6. ^ gov-takedowns: Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices, GitHub, 2017-06-29, retrieved 2017-06-30

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