Cho or CHO may refer to:

People

  • Chief Happiness Officer
  • Chief Heat Officer

Surnames

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  • Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname
  • Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname
  • Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao ()
  • Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang (<small>Kanji</small> )
  • Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion
  • Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor
  • Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman
  • Isamu Chō (1895–1945), Japanese lieutenant general
  • Mohamed-Ali Cho (born 2004), French footballer of Ivorian descent

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 basketball executive
  • Ba Cho (1893&ndash;1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician

Characters

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

Nicknames and stagenames

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

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 and mathematics

  • 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
  • Chō, also used as a unit of area in Japan approximately
  • Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone

Codes

  • CHO, the IATA code for Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in the commonwealth of Virginia, US
  • cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the Choctaw language as spoken in the US
  • CHO, the National Rail code for Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK

Other uses

  • Chō, a romanization of the suffix for towns in Japan

See also