Chen

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).

Chen can also refer to:

• Chen Dynasty, dynasty in Chinese history
• Chen (state) 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), 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

• Zhen (note that Chinese names that are transcribed Zhen in the modern Pinyin transcription was transcribed Chen in the older Wade-Giles system)
• Cheng