Chun may refer to:
Places
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Chun River
Huai Nam Chun (, ) is a watercourse in Phechaboon Province, Thailand. It is a tributary of the Pasak River, part of the
Chao praya River basin.
Rivers of Thailand, Chun
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in Thailand
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Chun District in Phayao Province, Thailand
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Chûn Castle
Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort (ringfort) near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The fort was built about 2,500 years ago, and fell into disuse until the early centuries AD when it was possibly re-occupied to protect the ...
, a hillfort in the United Kingdom
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Commandery (China)
A commandery ( zh, s=郡, p=jùn) was a historical administrative division of China that was in use from the Eastern Zhou (c. 7th century BCE) until the early Tang dynasty (c. 7th century CE). Several neighboring countrie ...
(), an administrative division of imperial China
People and names
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Jeon (surname)
Jeon (전), also often spelled Jun, Chun or Chon, is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000, there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja, each with different me ...
(), a common Korean surname spelled Chun by about 5% of its bearers
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Cheon (Korean surname)
Cheon, also spelled Chun or Chon, is an uncommon Korean surname. It is written with either of two hanja:
* () meaning "thousand". This is the more common character, used as a surname by 103,811 people in 32,229 households in South Korea, accordi ...
(), a less common Korean surname spelled Chun by about 40% of its bearers
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Joon (Korean name)
Joon, also spelled Jun, Chun, or June, is a rare Korean family name, as well as a common element in Korean given names.
As a family name
The family name Joon is written with only one hanja, meaning (). The 2000 South Korean Census found 72 peop ...
(), a rare Korean surname spelled Chun in the McCune–Reischauer romanisation
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Chen (surname)
Chen () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and ...
(), a Chinese surname also spelled Chun
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Carl Chun
Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanogr ...
(1852–1914), German zoologist
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Chun (Bible)
Chun may refer to:
Places
* Chun River in Thailand
* Chun District in Phayao Province, Thailand
* Chûn Castle, a hillfort in the United Kingdom
* Commandery (China) (), an administrative division of imperial China
People and names
* Jeon (surn ...
, a
biblical name
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a Books of the Bible, biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, d ...
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Prince Chun (disambiguation) Prince Chun may refer to any of the following princely peerages of the Qing dynasty in China:
* Prince Chun (純), created in 1674
* Prince Chun (淳), created in 1709
* Prince Chun (醇)
Prince Chun of the First Rank, or simply Prince Chun, ...
, the title of various princes of the Chinese Qing Dynasty
Other
* Ch'un, a type of
Chinese clam monster
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Chun (season) (), the Chinese season of spring
See also
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Qian (disambiguation) Qian may refer to:
*Cash (Chinese coin), a circular copper coin with a square hole in the center used from the 4th century BCE to the 20th century CE
*Guizhou, abbreviated as ''Qián'' (黔), province of China
*Mace (unit), or Qian, one of the Chi ...
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