Chan (commune)
Pouy () is a commune in Ou Chum District in north-east Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696.Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
* Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
* Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
* Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
* Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
* Chan Romero (1941–2024), American rock and roll performer
* Chan Santokhi (born 1959), Surinamese politician
* Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
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Bang Chan
Christopher Chahn Bahng (born 3 October 1997), known professionally as Bang Chan (), is an Australian singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer based in South Korea. Signed to JYP Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy b ...
(born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids
* Kang Yu-chan (born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E
Computing and media
*chan-, an abbreviation for channels in
Internet Relay Chat
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for Many-to-many, group communication in discussion forums, called ''#Channels, channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via instant mess ...
(IRC)
*chan, a common suffix for the title of an
imageboard
An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of ...
As an acronym/initialism
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African Nations Championship
The African Nations Championship, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship and commonly abbreviated as CHAN, is a biennial African association football tournament organized by the Confederation of Afri ...
or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Nations'' (CHAN), an African football tournament
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CHAN-DT
CHAN-DT (channel 8), branded Global British Columbia or Global BC (formerly British Columbia Television or BCTV), is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Global Television Networ ...
, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada
Other uses
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Chan (surname) Chan is a non-pinyin romanisation of multiple Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese.
Among respondents to the 2000 United States census, Chan was the 12th-most common surname among Asian Pacific Americans, and 459th-most common ...
, romanization of various Chinese surnames
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Chan Buddhism
Chan (; of ), from Sanskrit '' dhyāna'' (meaning " meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song ...
, a school of Mahayana Buddhism
* Chan (honorific), a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
*Chan (), a form of
Thai poetry
Poetry has been featured extensively in Thai literature, and constituted the near-exclusive majority of literary works up to the early Rattanakosin Kingdom, Rattanakosin period (early 19th century). Most of imaginative literary works in Thai, befor ...
Chen (surname)
Chen () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and ...
, pronounced in Cantonese as Chan
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Chung (surname) Chung is a surname whose bearers are generally people of Chinese people, Chinese or Korean people, Korean descent. It is also a Vietnamese surname worn by people of Chinese descent but is very rare in Vietnam; the surname is known as Zhong (Traditio ...
* Zen (disambiguation), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
* Dhyana (disambiguation), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools
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