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Che is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 車 in traditional Chinese and 车 in simplified Chinese. It is listed 229th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames . [ 1 ]
Che (or Ché) is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Che. Che Arthur, American musician; Che Baraka (born 1953), American mixed media artist; Che Bunce (born 1975), New Zealand footballer; Che Chen, American composer and multi-instrumentalist; Che Clark (born 2003), New Zealand rugby union player
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
The Chen Clan Academy in Guangzhou, China. Chen descends from the legendary sage king Emperor Shun from around 2200 BC via the surname Gui (). [9] [10]A millennium after Emperor Shun, when King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 BC), he enfeoffed his son-in-law Gui Man, also known as Duke Hu of Chen or Chen Hugong (陈胡公).
Chee is a Chinese and Navajo surname. It may refer to the Min Nan or Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname pronounced Xú in Mandarin, or the Cantonese pronunciation of the surname 朱 (zyu 1, Zhū in Mandarin). As a Navajo surname, it is derived from the root -CHIIʼ, meaning "red". It is also a variant romanization of the Korean ...
Che, a 2008 film directed by Steven Soderbergh starring Benicio del Toro; Che, a 2014 Persian film; Ché (band), American stoner rock band; Che, the narrator in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita; Che, from the television show The O.C. Che, the rebranded name of Russian federal television channel Peretz
As an English surname, Chew has three separate origins: A toponymic surname referring to a place in Billington, Lancashire. It was originally spelled Cho, from Middle English cho, which is possibly a descendant of Old English cēo meaning "fish gill". [1] [2] A toponymic surname referring to Chew Magna or Chew Stoke in Somerset. [3]
Qi (亓 also written as Kei in Cantonese) is a Chinese surname from Qiquan (亓官) the name of Public Office during the Xia dynasty.In 2013 it was the 346th most common surnames, shared by 134,000 people or 0.010% of the population, with the province with the most being Shandong.