Cho or CHO may refer to:
People
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Chief Happiness Officer
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Chief Heat Officer
Surnames
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Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname
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Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname
* Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname
Cao
Cao or CAO may refer to:
Mythology
*Cao (bull), a legendary bull in Meitei mythology
Companies or organizations
* Air China Cargo, ICAO airline designator CAO
* CA Oradea, Romanian football club
* CA Osasuna, Spanish football club
* Canadian ...
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* Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese
Zhang (
Kanji )
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Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese ''go'' player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion
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Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor
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Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman
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Isamu Chō
was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.
Biography
Chō was a native of Fukuoka prefecture. He graduated ...
(1895–1945), Japanese lieutenant general
Characters
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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
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Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki), the same character in the manga and anime series ''Saiyuki'', based on the novel
Given name
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Cho Ramaswamy
Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy, better known as Cho Ramaswamy (5 October 1934 – 7 December 2016), was an Indian actor, comedian, editor, political commentator, satirist, playwright, film director and lawyer from Tamil Nadu. He was a popular comedi ...
(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
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Rich Cho (born 1965), American basketball executive
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Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician
Characters
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Cho Chang, a fictional character from the ''Harry Potter'' series
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Amadeus Cho
Amadeus Cho is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by American writer Greg Pak and Canadian artist Takeshi Miyazawa, the character first appeared in '' Amazing Fantasy'' vol. 2 #15 (January 2005). C ...
, a fictional character from the ''Marvel'' series
Nicknames and stagenames
* Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name
Chō
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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
These terms are used in contract bridge, using Duplicate bridge, duplicate or Rubber bridge, rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking games. This glossary supplements t ...
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Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper
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"Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song), 1996
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Chō (Tsuki Amano song)
Science and mathematics
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Chinese hamster ovary cell
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a family of immortalized cell lines derived from epithelial cells of the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therap ...
(CHO cell)
* ''CHO'', a mnemonic used to teach
trigonometry
Trigonometry () is a branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and side lengths of triangles. In particular, the trigonometric functions relate the angles of a right triangle with ratios of its side lengths. The fiel ...
, showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse over the length opposite side
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cubohemioctahedron, in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron
* -CHO, the chemical symbol for an
aldehyde
In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () (lat. ''al''cohol ''dehyd''rogenatum, dehydrogenated alcohol) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred ...
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Carbohydrate
A carbohydrate () is a biomolecule composed of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O) atoms. The typical hydrogen-to-oxygen atomic ratio is 2:1, analogous to that of water, and is represented by the empirical formula (where ''m'' and ''n'' ...
, 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
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport is an airport eight miles north of Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It opened in 1955 and serves the Central Virginia and Shenandoah Valley region with ...
in the commonwealth of Virginia, US
* cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the
Choctaw language
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean languages, Muskogean language family. Chickasaw language, Chickasaw is a separate but closely related l ...
as spoken in the US
* CHO, the National Rail code for
Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
See also
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