 Zou surname in regular script | |
| Romanization | Zōu (Pinyin) Chau (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Tsou (Wade-Giles) |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Chinese, Vietnamese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Old Chinese |
| Derivation | Zou (state) |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Zou, Tsou (Mandarin) Chow (Hong Kong) Chou (Teochew) Chau, Chao (Hokkien) Trâu (Vietnamese) |
| Cognate(s) | Zhu 朱 |
Zou (traditional Chinese: 鄒; simplified Chinese: 邹; Wade–Giles: Tsou) is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China.[1] Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau, Trau, Tsou, Tjeuw or Chew. It is the 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
Notable people
- Zou Yan (鄒衍; 305 BC–240 BC), Chinese philosopher best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era
- Zou Rong (1885–1905), anti-Qing revolutionary
- Zou Zhe: 鄒喆; pinyin: Zōu Zhé; Wade–Giles: Tsou Che 1636–ca. 1708), Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty
- Zou Taofen (1895–1944), Chinese journalist
- Zou Jiahua (born 1926), Vice Premier of China, son of Zou Taofen
- Chen-Lu Tsou (1923–2006), Chinese biochemist
- Zou Yinglong (deputy prime minister, Song dynasty)[1]
- Zou Yuanbiao (judge, Ming dynasty)[1]
- Zou Yiguai (judge, Qing dynasty)[1]
- Olivia Chow (鄒至蕙; born 1957), Canadian politician, federal New Democratic Party (NDP) member of Parliament
- Zou Jiayi (邹加怡; born 1963), Chinese politician and economist
- Collin Chou (born 1967), Taiwanese-born Hong Kong-based actor
- Shuping Wang (1959–2019), original surname Zou, Chinese-American medical researcher and public health whistleblower
- Zou Taixin (邹太新; born 1966), Chinese former politician
- Ryan Choo (邹联福; born 1969 or 1970), Singaporean former actor
- Zou Yuchen (邹雨宸; born 1996) Chinese male professional basketball player
- Zou Yu (邹瑜; born 1920), a politician of the People's Republic
- Zou Yucheng (邹宇成; pinyin: Zōu Yǔchéng; born 1991), Chinese footballer
- Zou Yigui (邹一桂, 1686–1772), style name as Yuanbao (原褒), sobriquet
- Zou Lunlun (simplified Chinese: 邹伦伦; traditional Chinese: 鄒倫倫; pinyin: Zōu Lúnlún), player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither
- Zou Dehai (Chinese: 邹德海; pinyin: Zōu Déhǎi; born 1993), a Chinese footballer who plays for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super
- Zou Zhenxian (邹振先; born 1955), Chinese triple jumper
References
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