Chun may refer to:
Places
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Chun River in Thailand
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Chun District in Phayao Province, Thailand
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Chûn Castle, a hillfort in the United Kingdom
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Commandery (China)
A jùn (郡) was a historical administrative division of China from the Eastern Zhou (c. 7th century BCE) until the early Tang dynasty (c. 7th century CE). It is usually translated as a commandery.
Countries around Ch ...
(), an administrative division of imperial China
People and names
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Jeon (Korean surname)
Jeon (전), also often spelled Jun, Chun or Chon, is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000, there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja, each with different m ...
(), a common Korean surname spelled Chun by about 5% of its bearers
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Cheon (Korean surname) (), a less common Korean surname spelled Chun by about 40% of its bearers
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Joon (Korean name)
Joon, also spelled Jun, Chun, or June, is a rare Korean family name, as well as a common element in Korean given names.
As a family name
The family name Joon is written with only one hanja, meaning (). The 2000 South Korean Census found 72 peo ...
(), a rare Korean surname spelled Chun in the McCune–Reischauer romanisation
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Chen (surname) (), a Chinese surname also spelled Chun
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Carl Chun
Carl Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist.
Chun was born in Höchst, today a part of Frankfurt, and studied zoology at the University of Leipzig, where from 1878 to 1883 he was privat-docent of zoology and an a ...
(1852–1914), German zoologist
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Chun (Bible), a
biblical name
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations ...
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Prince Chun (disambiguation) Prince Chun may refer to any of the following princely peerages of the Qing dynasty in China:
* Prince Chun (純), created in 1674
* Prince Chun (淳)
Prince Chun of the First Rank, or simply Prince Chun, was the title of a Royal and noble ranks ...
, the title of various princes of the Chinese Qing Dynasty
Other
* Ch'un, a type of
Chinese clam monster
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Chun (season)
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and pola ...
(), the Chinese season of spring
See also
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Qian (disambiguation) Qian may refer to:
* Guizhou, abbreviated as ''Qián'' (黔), province of China
* Mace (unit), or Qian, one of the Chinese units of measurement, equal to 5g
* Qian (hexagram), the first hexagram of the ''I Ching''
* Qian (surname), a Chinese surna ...
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