Cho

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Cho or CHO can refer to several things:

Cho can refer to the following people, real or fictional:

Name

• Cho (Myst), a character in the video game Myst
• Yūichi Nagashima, a seiyū who goes by the stage name "Chō".

Given name

• People
  • Cho Ramaswamy, an actor, columnist, and political commentator in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Cho U, a Chinese Go player

Family name

• People
  • Cho (Korean name), a Korean family name
  • Alina Cho, CNN newsperson
  • Cho Chikun, a Korean Go player
  • David Yonggi Cho, a Korean Christian minister
  • Frank Cho, a comic writer
  • Fujio Cho, Toyota executive
  • John Cho, an American actor
  • Liz Cho, American newscaster
  • Margaret Cho, an American comedian
  • Cho Hunhyun, a Korean Go player
  • Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre
• Ficitonal characters
  • Amadeus Cho, also known as the new Mastermind Excello
  • Bo' Rai Cho, a fictional video game character in Mortal Kombat games
  • Cho Chang A girl in the Harry Potter Series
  • Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name of the character Zhu Bajie from Journey to the West, and various pop-culture characters based on him
  • Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki) of the drawn and later animated series Saiyuki

CHO is a three-letter acronym that could refer to:

• Center-hand opponent, a term used in the card game bridge: see Contract bridge glossary#C
• Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
• Chinese Hamster Ovary cell
• The chemical symbol for an aldehyde
• The ISO 639 code for the Choctaw language
• CHO is a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry, showing that cosecant is the ratio of hypotenuse over opposite.

Cho can refer to:

• Carbohydrate, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O)
• An ancient Japanese measurement approximately equal to 109.1 metres: see Japanese units of measurement
• -cho is a Japanese suffix, indicating a town: see towns of Japan
• Nokia's internal codename for the Nokia 6681 mobile phone