Chao
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 趙/赵 (Zhào), Wade-Giles romanization: Chao⁴.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Chao
- A surname from Chinese.
- Zhao (state)
- 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 B.C.[1], Stanford University Press, page 45:
- Lu Pu-wei was a prosperous businessman in the large city of Han-tan in Chao, where he met a prince of Ch'in who was being kept as hostage in the capital.
- 1977, Li Yu-ning, Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China[2], M. E. Sharpe, page xxxviii:
- The same chapter says: "The majority of ancient authors did excellent practical work, but they were not employed. Kuan Chung and Yen Ying 晏嬰 were as great statesmen as writers, Shang Yang and Yu Ch'ing 虞卿 (51) [author Yu-shih ch'un-ch'iu 虞氏春秋, an official at the court of King Hsiao-ch'eng of Chao, 265-245 B.C.] were as active in literature as in administration." (52)
- 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare[3], Basic Books, →ISBN, page 150:
- Late Shang ancillary capitals included Han-tan to the north, an area previously occupied by predynastic Shang culture and subsequently the capital of the state of Chao as well as crucial geostrategic location;³⁶ Chao-ko to the south and Shang-ch'iu, often said to have retained its importance throughout the dynasty as the original ritual center and the location of the oldest and thus most important ancestral temple.
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chao (“plain”), from Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Chao m
- a large number of villages and places in Galicia
- a toponymical surname
References
[edit]- “Chao” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “Chao” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Chao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʰa.oː/, [ˈkʰäoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.o/, [ˈkäːo]
Proper noun
[edit]Chaō
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