Chun

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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 romanized as chün by the Wade-Giles system
• "Chun" is a Biblical city, an Aramaean city also called Kun or Cunnce

People and names

• Jeon (Korean surname), also spelled Chun (written with the characters 全, 田, or 錢)
• Cheon (Korean surname), also spelled Chun, a Korean surname written with the same character (千) as the Chinese surname Qiān
• Chen (surname) (陳), a Chinese surname also spelled Chun
• Chun, a biblical name; see List of Biblical names
• Carl Chun (1852-1914), German marine biologist
• Prince Chun (disambiguation), the title of various princes of the Chinese Qing Dynasty
• Chun the Unavoidable, a character from Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories.

Other

• Ch'un, a former spelling of chen or shen, a type of Chinese clam monster
• Chun (season) (Chinese: 春), the Chinese season of spring, consisting of the end of winter and beginning of spring

"Chun" (Irish language)is a preposition governing the genitive case meaning "to, in order to, for".^[1] Tá mé ag dul chun na scoile - I am going to (the) school Tá mé ar an bhealach chun bainisteoir an bhainc a fheiceáil. I am on the way (in order) to see the bank manager.

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