Chui is a surname.

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 ar ...

pronunciation of two Chinese surnames, listed below by their

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...

transcription (which reflects the

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

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 sh ...

; a grandson of Jiang Ziya 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

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

from the ancient state of Xu, adopted by the descendants of Boyi after the state was annexed by the state of Chu. (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

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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 Asian, 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 (; 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 (; 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 shootin ...

(; born 1983), Hong Kong actor

Other or unknown

* Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía (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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