Cho or CHO may refer to:
People
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Chief Happiness Officer The Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) in a company is the manager of workers' happiness. Probably originating in North America, CHO posts are being created in European and UK companies to ensure workers' welfare needs are met.
In popular culture
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Surnames
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Cho (Korean surname)
Jo (, sometimes written as Cho) is a Korean family name, traditionally a royal family name in Korea. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, about 1% of the total population. The name may represent either of the H ...
, one romanization of the common Korean surname
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Zhuo
Zhuo () is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Cheuk or Cherk or Chak in Cantonese, and Toh or Tok in Teochew and Hokkien. Zhuo is listed 277th in the Song dy ...
(), 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 Assoc ...
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* Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese
Zhang Zhang may refer to:
Chinese culture, etc.
* Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname
** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname
* Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu
* Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan
* ''Zha ...
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Kanji )
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Cho U
Cho U (; born on 20 January 1980) is a Taiwanese professional Go player. He currently ranks 6th in the most titles won by a Japanese professional; his NEC Cup win in 2011 put him past his teacher Rin Kaiho and Norimoto Yoda. Cho is the first pl ...
(born 1980), Taiwanese ''go'' player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion
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Chō
is a Japanese actor and narrator from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was . He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater ...
(born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor
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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, character actor, editor, political satirist, playwright, film director and lawyer from Tamil Nadu. He was a p ...
(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
Ba Cho ( my, ဘချို, ; 24 April 1893 – 19 July 1947) was a Burma, Burmese newspaper publisher and politician who served as the Minister of Information in Myanmar's pre-independence government. Ba Cho and six other cabinet ministers ...
(1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician
Characters
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Cho Chang
Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwa ...
, a fictional character from the ''Harry Potter'' series
Nicknames and stagenames
* Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name
Chō
is a Japanese actor and narrator from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was . He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater ...
* CHO, a nickname given to
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Callum James Hudson-Odoi (born 7 November 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen, on loan from club Chelsea.
During his time with Chelsea's academy, Hudson-Odoi was part o ...
, 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 or 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 the Glossary of card game terms.
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Cho (rapper)
Giovanni Rustenberg better known by his stage name Cho (born in Amsterdam on 6 February 1993) is a Dutch rapper. He was part of the hip hop collective SlodderVosGang and Straight Outta Control before going solo.
SlodderVosGang was a collective st ...
(born 1993), Dutch rapper
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"Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song), 1996
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Chō (Tsuki Amano song)
''Chō'' is the 7th major single by female J-pop singer-songwriter Tsukiko Amano, from her third major album ''Tenryū''. It was released on November 12, 2003, and reached a peak of No. 49 on the Oricon weekly charts, charting for 8 weeks. The s ...
Science and mathematics
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Chinese hamster ovary cell
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are an epithelial cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. They have foun ...
(CHO cell)
* ''CHO'', a mnemonic used to teach
trigonometry
Trigonometry () is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between side lengths and angles of triangles. The field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications of geometry to astronomical studies. T ...
, 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, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It is given Wythoff symbol 4 , 3 ...
, in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron
* -CHO, the chemical symbol for an
aldehyde
In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred to as an aldehyde but can also be classified as a formyl grou ...
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Carbohydrate
In organic chemistry, a carbohydrate () is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where ''m'' may or ma ...
, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O)
Technology
*''Chō'', an ancient
Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 meters or 357'11"
*''Chō'', also used as a
unit of area in Japan approximately 2.449 acres or 0.9917 hectares
*Nokia's internal codename for the
6681 mobile phone
Codes
* CHO, the IATA code for
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport is eight miles north of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It opened in 1955 and serves the Charlottesville/Albemarle region with non-stop flights to five major cities on three air ...
in the state 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, is part of the Muskogean language family. Chickasaw is separate but closely related language to Choctaw.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahom ...
as spoken in the US
* CHO, the National Rail code for
Cholsey railway station
Cholsey railway station (previously Cholsey & Moulsford) serves the village of Cholsey in south Oxfordshire, England, and the nearby town of Wallingford. It is down the line from and is situated between to the east and to the west.
The st ...
in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
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