Zhao may refer to: *

Zhao (surname) Zhao (; ) is a Chinese-language surname, means “walk quickly” and “jump” in ancient Chinese, and is the 1st surname in the famous Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor' ...

(赵), a Chinese surname ** commonly spelled Chao in Taiwan or up until the early 20th century in other regions **

Chiu Chiu is a romanization of various Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. It may correspond to the surnames spelled in the following ways in Mandarin pinyin: * Zhào () or Zhāo (), from the Cantonese pronunciation * Zhāng ...

, from the Cantonese pronunciation **

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 ...

, represent the

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

趙 (Chinese: Zhao) **

Triệu Triệu is a Vietnamese surname, it is the equivalent of the Mandarin Chinese surname Zhao (趙). Trieu is the anglicized variation of the surname Triệu. Notable people with the surname Triệu * Triệu Thị Trinh or Lady Triệu: a female Vi ...

, a Vietnamese surname which is the equivalent of the Mandarin Chinese surname Zhao (趙) *

Zhao County Zhao County (Zhaoxian) (), a historic town called Zhaozhou () in the past, is located in the southwest of Hebei province southeast of the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, and south of Beijing. Its total land area is and total population is aroun ...

, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China *

Zhao family (disambiguation) Zhao family may refer to: *The aristocratic Zhao family in Jin (Chinese state) during the Spring and Autumn period **Zhao (state) in the Warring States period, founded by the same family *The ruling house of Zhao dynasty (Nanyue) in southern Chin ...

Zhao family (Internet slang) The Zhao family () refers to dignitaries in China, such as the top bureaucrat, the rich, leaders in-system and their offspring. The phrase originates from Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q". In December 2015, an article in WeChat public account d ...

, based on the surname Zhao, an internet term in China which refers to the ruling elite and the rich * 兆 (zhào), a

Chinese numeral Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese. Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous ...

which usually represents 10⁶ or 10¹² **

Mega- Mega is a unit prefix in metric systems of units denoting a factor of one million (106 or ). It has the unit symbol M. It was confirmed for use in the International System of Units (SI) in 1960. ''Mega'' comes from grc, μέγας, mégas, g ...

, corresponding SI prefix in China, equals to 10⁶ **

Tera- A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pr ...

, corresponding SI prefix in Taiwan, equals to 10¹² * Admiral Zhao, a character in the animated series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender''

Chinese history

Zhao (state) Zhao () was one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China. It was created from the three-way Partition of Jin, together with Han and Wei, in the 5th century BC. Zhao gained significant strength from the mil ...

(403 BC–222 BC), a Warring States period state *

Triệu dynasty The Triệu dynasty or Zhao dynasty (; vi, Nhà Triệu, links=no; 茹趙) ruled the kingdom of Nanyue, which consisted of parts of southern China as well as northern Vietnam. Its capital was Panyu, in modern Guangzhou. The founder of the dynas ...

(204 BC–111 BC), or Zhao dynasty, the ruling house of the Nanyue state *

Zhao Kingdom (Han dynasty) Zhao Kingdom or Zhao Principality ( zh, 趙國) was a kingdom or principality in early Imperial China, located in present-day North China. The kingdom was created in 203 BC and granted to Zhang Er (張耳), a follower of Emperor Gaozu of Han. ...

(203 BC–213 AD), a kingdom or principality in the Han dynasty *

Former Zhao The Han Zhao (; 304–329 AD), or Former Zhao (), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Xiongnu people during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. In Chinese historiography, it was given two conditional state titles, the Northern ...

(304–329), or Han Zhao, a Sixteen Kingdoms state *

Later Zhao The Later Zhao (; 319–351) was a dynasty of the Sixteen Kingdoms in northern China. It was founded by the Shi family of the Jie ethnicity. The Jie were most likely a Yeniseian people and spoke next to Chinese one of the Yeniseian languages.Vo ...

(319–351), a Sixteen Kingdoms state *

Zhao (Five Dynasties period) Zhao (趙, ~910–~921) was a state early in the Five Dynasties period of the history of China in what is now central Hebei. The ancestors of Zhao's only prince, Wang Rong, had long governed the region as military governors (''Jiedushi'') of the ...

(910–921), a Five Dynasties period state *

House of Zhao The House of Zhao () was the imperial clan of the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. Family history Origin The Zhao family originated from Zhuo Commandery (), located near present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei Province in China, and traced its roo ...

(960–1279), the imperial clan of the Song Empire

Chinese history

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