Chui is a

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Origins

Chui is a spelling of the

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

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 habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname 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 ancient Chinese state, regional state of the Zhou dynasty in History of China#Ancient China, ancient China, whose rulers held Zhou dynasty nobility, titles of ''Hou'' (), then ''Gong (title), Go ...

; 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

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

state of Chu Chu (, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was an Ancient Chinese states, ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BC. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted ...

. (Cantonese pronunciation – ).

Statistics

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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 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 (; 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 ...

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

Surname 徐

* Chui A-poo (; died 1851), Chinese pirate *

Norman Chui Norman Chui Siu-keung (16 October 1950 – 1 September 2024) was 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 ...

(; born 1950), Hong Kong actor * Alan Chui Chung-San (; 1952–2022), Hong Kong actor * Chui Chi-kin (; born 1967), Hong Kong politician * Chui Tien-you (; 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 Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese army and a former senior commander of the Na ...

(born 1970), Congolese army colonel

References

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