Chen
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Chen is a Chinese surname and a Hebrew word ("חֵן") meaning "loveliness", or "grace", which is also a common given name and surname. See Chen (surname)
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Chen can also refer to:
Chen (surname)
Chén or Chan is one of the most common East Asian family names. It ranks as the 5th most common surname in China, as of 2007 and the most common surname in Singapore and Taiwan . Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hong Kong...
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Chen can also refer to:
- Chen DynastyChen DynastyThe Chen Dynasty , also known as the Southern Chen Dynasty, was the fourth and last of the Southern dynasties in China, eventually destroyed by the Sui Dynasty....
, dynasty in Chinese history - Chen (state)Chen (state)Chen was a minor Zhou Dynasty vassal state during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese History. It was a relatively minor state based on a single urban centre near what is now Huaiyang County in the plains of eastern Henan province...
during the Zhou Dynasty, which is now part of present-day Anhui and Henan - Chen Bridge, where a military uprising began (陳橋兵變) that led to the establishment of the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
- Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan, the well known Chinese martial art created by the Chen family
- Chen (genus)Chen (genus)The white geese are a small group of waterfowl which are united in the genus or subgenus Chen, in the true geese and swan subfamily Anserinae. They breed on subarctic areas of North America and around the Bering Strait, migrating south in winter....
, a genus of geese which is sometimes included in Anser - Chen's Notation, a graphical representation of a relational database devised by Peter Chen
- Chen, a character from the Touhou Project video game series
See also
- ZhenZhen-surname Zhēn:Jian:Yen:甄 is a Chinese and Korean surname. Note that the Chinese syllable that's transcribed Zhen in the modern Hanyu Pinyin transcription was written Chen in the older Wade-Giles system;thus many people with this surname may have been known in English as Chen.*from Guan Ming name...
(note that Chinese names that are transcribed Zhen in the modern Pinyin transcription was transcribed Chen in the older Wade-Giles system) - ChengChengCheng can be a transcription of one of several Chinese surnames. Since the syllable Cheng represents different sounds in Hanyu pinyin and the Wade-Giles systems of Chinese romanization, some ambiguity will exist as to which sound is represented by the letters "Cheng" if the romanisation and tone...