Zou (surname)

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Zou
Zou surname in regular script
RomanizationZōu (Pinyin)
Chau (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Tsou (Wade-Giles)
Language(s)Chinese, Vietnamese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
DerivationZou (state)
Other names
Variant form(s)Zou, Tsou (Mandarin)
Chow (Hong Kong)
Chou (Teochew)
Chau, Chao (Hokkien)
Trâu (Vietnamese)
Cognate(s)Zhu

Zou (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: Tsou) is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China.[1] Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau, Trau, Tsou, Tjeuw or Chew. It is the 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Notable people[edit]

  • Zou Yan (鄒衍; 305 BC–240 BC), Chinese philosopher best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era
  • Zou Rong (1885–1905), anti-Qing revolutionary
  • Zou Zhe: 鄒喆; pinyin: Zōu Zhé; Wade–Giles: Tsou Che 1636–ca. 1708), Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty
  • Zou Taofen (1895–1944), Chinese journalist
  • Zou Jiahua (born 1926), Vice Premier of China, son of Zou Taofen
  • Chen-Lu Tsou (1923–2006), Chinese biochemist
  • Zou Yinglong (deputy prime minister, Song dynasty)[1]
  • Zou Yuanbiao (judge, Ming dynasty)[1]
  • Zou Yiguai (judge, Qing dynasty)[1]
  • Olivia Chow (鄒至蕙; born 1957), Canadian politician, federal New Democratic Party (NDP) member of Parliament
  • Zou Jiayi (邹加怡; born 1963), Chinese politician and economist
  • Collin Chou (born 1967), Taiwanese-born Hong Kong-based actor
  • Shuping Wang (1959–2019), original surname Zou, Chinese-American medical researcher and public health whistleblower
  • Zou Taixin (邹太新; born 1966), Chinese former politician
  • Ryan Choo (邹联福; born 1969 or 1970), Singaporean former actor
  • Zou Yuchen (邹雨宸; born 1996) Chinese male professional basketball player
  • Zou Yu (邹瑜; born 1920), a politician of the People's Republic
  • Zou Yucheng (邹宇成; pinyin: Zōu Yǔchéng; born 1991), Chinese footballer
  • Zou Yigui (邹一桂, 1686–1772), style name as Yuanbao (原褒), sobriquet
  • Zou Lunlun (simplified Chinese: 邹伦伦; traditional Chinese: 鄒倫倫; pinyin: Zōu Lúnlún), player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither
  • Zou Dehai (Chinese: 邹德海; pinyin: Zōu Déhǎi; born 1993), a Chinese footballer who plays for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super
  • Zou Zhenxian (邹振先; born 1955), Chinese triple jumper

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