English
- surname
- surname Zhao
- to surpass (old)
- a surname, usually transliterated as "Chiu" ----
- Warring States-era kingdom in modern Hebei and Shanxi
- one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC)
- name adopted by various states in ancient China, usually transliterated as "Zhao"
- the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
粵語
- 姓
- 古代中國國名、國號用字，例如戰國時代趙國
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Variants
Words containing 趙
- 趙軍ziu6 gwan1
army of Zhao 趙國|赵国 during the Warring States
- 趙括ziu6 kut3
Zhao Kuo (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国[Zhao4 Guo2], who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
- 後趙hau6 ziu6
Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (319-350)
- 趙高ziu6 gou1
Zhao Gao (?-207 BC), one of the most vile, corrupt and powerful eunuchs in Chinese history, responsible for the fall of Qin Dynasty
- 前趙cin4 ziu6
Former Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (304-329)
- 趙縣ziu6 jyun6
Zhao County or Zhaoxian, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei
- 趙國ziu6 gwok3
Zhao, one of the seven states during the Warring States Period of Chinese history (475-220 BC)
- 趙六ziu6 luk6
- 趙客ziu6 haak3
knight of the Zhao State
- 趙雲ziu6 wan4
Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- 趙薇ziu6 mei4
Zhao Wei or Vicky Zhao (1976-), Chinese film star
- 趙宋ziu6 sung3
Song dynasty (960-1279)
- 趙樹理ziu6 syu6 lei5
Zhao Shuli (1906-1970), proletarian novelist
- 趙翼ziu6 jik6
Zhao Yi (1727-1814), Qing dynasty poet and historian, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家
- 趙構ziu6 kau3
Zhao Gou (1107-1187), personal name of the tenth Song Emperor Gaozong 宋高宗[Song4 Gao1 zong1] (reigned 1127-1162)
- 燕趙jin3 ziu6
Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi
- 趙紫陽ziu6 zi2 joeng4
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then
- 趙本山ziu6 bun2 saan1
Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
- 圍魏救趙wai4 ngai6 gau3 ziu6
lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom)
- 完璧歸趙jyun4 bik1 gwai1 ziu6
lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
- 趙岐ziu6 kei4
Zhao Qi (-201 BC), early Han commentator on Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3]
- 趙家人ziu6 gaa1 jan4
(neologism 2015) the Zhao family (derogatory term for those who hold power in the PRC)
- 趙學而ziu6 hok6 ji4
Bondy, Chiu Hok-yee, a Hong Kong singer and actress
- 趙元任ziu6 jyun4 jam6
Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist