Chui is a

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Origins

Chui is a spelling of the

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...

pronunciation of two

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s, listed below by their

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transcription (which reflects the

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pronunciation): * Cuī (), which originated as a

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

from a fief by that name in the

state of Qi Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a state of the Zhou dynasty-era in ancient China, variously reckoned as a march, duchy, and independent kingdom. Its capital was Linzi, located in present-day Shandong. Qi was founded shortly ...

; a grandson of

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renounced his claim to the throne and went to live in that fief, and his descendants took its name as their surname. (Cantonese pronunciation – ) * Xú (), which originated as a

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from the ancient

state of Xu The State of Xu () (also called Xu Rong () or Xu Yi () by its enemies) was an independent Huaiyi state of the Chinese Bronze Age that was ruled by the Ying family () and controlled much of the Huai River valley for at least two centuries. It wa ...

, adopted by the descendants of Boyi after the state was annexed by the

state of Chu Chu, or Ch'u in Wade–Giles romanization, (, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou hea ...

. (Cantonese pronunciation – ).

Statistics

According to statistics cited by

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, there were 267 people on the island of

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and 12 on the island of

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with the surname Chui as of 2011. There had been one person with that surname in Great Britain in 1881. The

2010 United States Census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servin ...

found 1,420 people with the surname Chui, making it the 19,138th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,303 (19,248th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as

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, and roughly two percent as

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People

Surname 崔

Chui Sai Cheong Chui Sai-cheong (; born 19 February 1954 in Macau) is a member and the First Secretary of the Legislative Assembly of Macau. He is the older brother of Fernando Chui the former Chief Executive of Macau The Chief Executive of the Macao Specia ...

(; born 1954), Macau politician, older brother of Fernando Chui *

Fernando Chui Fernando Chui Sai-on (; born 13 January 1957) is a Macau politician who served as the 2nd Chief Executive of Macau from 2009 to 2019. He served as Secretary for Social and Cultural Affairs from 1999 to 2009. Chui was born in 1957 to local c ...

(; born 1957), second chief executive of Macau * Anita Chui (; born 1988), Hong Kong actress *

Vincent Chui Vincent Tsui (崔允信) is one of the few independent film directors in Hong Kong. He starts his filming career in ''As Time Goes By'' (1997), a documentary film he co-directed with Ann Hui. ''Leaving in Sorrow'' (2001), starring Shawn Yue, which ...

(), Hong Kong film director

Surname 徐

Chui A-poo Chui A-poo (; died 1851) was a 19th-century Qing Dynasty, Qing China, Chinese pirate who commanded a fleet of more than 50 junk (ship), junks in the South China Sea. He was one of the two most notorious South China Sea pirates of the era, along ...

(; died 1851), Chinese pirate *

Norman Chui Norman Chui Siu-keung (; born 16 October 1950) is a Hong Kong actor. He was best known for portraying heroic protagonists in many martial arts films from the 1970s to 1980s and later portraying villainous roles in the 1990s. Chui was contracted wi ...

(; born 1950), Hong Kong actor *

Alan Chui Chung-San Chui Chung-San (often known as Shu Zhong Xin, Hsu Zhong-Xin or Alan Hsu; 16 August 1952 – 2 November 2022) was a Hong Kong actor, director, choreographer, martial artist and stuntman. He was known for being an action director and stuntman. Ch ...

(; born 1954), Hong Kong actor *

Chui Chi-kin Andy Chui Chi-kin () is a member of the Eastern District Council, representing Yue Wan constituency in Hong Kong. Chui is a trader by occupation and participated in the 79-day Occupy sit-ins in 2014. Inspired by the Occupy movement, he formed ...

(; born 1967), Hong Kong politician *

Chui Tien-you Chui Man-kin (徐文健, born May 16, 1983), better known as Chui Tien-you (徐天佑) or Tien You or "TY", is a Hong Kong actor, singer, writer and director. Early life Chui was invited by director Fruit Chan for a beverage commercial shooting ...

(; born 1983), Hong Kong actor

Other or unknown

Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía (born 20 September 1947 in Chimbote) is a Peruvian engineer, agronomist and politician. He is the former Governor of the Department of Lima, Lima Department serving from 2015 to 2018. Biography Nelson Chui was born in ...

(born 1947), Peruvian politician *

Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui (born 8 October 1970)International Criminal Court (6 July 2007). . Retrieved 7 February 2008. is a colonel in the Congolese army and a former senior commander of the National Integrationist Front (FNI) and the Patrio ...

(born 1970), Congolese army colonel

References

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