Cho or CHO may refer to:
People Chief Happiness Officer Chief Heat Officer
Surnames
Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao () Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang (Kanji ) Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman Isamu Chō (1895–1945), Japanese lieutenant general Mohamed-Ali Cho (born 2004), French footballer of Ivorian descent
Characters Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name for Zhū Bājiè or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki), the same character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki, based on the novel
Given name Cho Ramaswamy (1934–2016), Indian actor and writer Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of a female name and at the end for male names Rich Cho (born 1965), American basketball executive Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician
Characters Cho Chang, a fictional character from the Harry Potter series Amadeus Cho, a fictional character from the Marvel series
Nicknames and stagenames Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name Chō Callum Hudson-Odoi, abbreviated to CHO, an English professional footballer
Entertainment Center-hand opponent, a term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper "Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song), 1996 Chō (Tsuki Amano song)
Science and mathematics Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO cell) CHO, a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry, showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse over the length opposite side cubohemioctahedron, in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron -CHO, the chemical symbol for an aldehyde Carbohydrate, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O)
Technology Chō, an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to Chō, also used as a unit of area in Japan approximately Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone
Codes CHO, the IATA code for Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in the commonwealth of Virginia, US cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the Choctaw language as spoken in the US CHO, the National Rail code for Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
Other uses Chō, a romanization of the suffix for towns in Japan
See also